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5 Sep 2024 20:19:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: First entry  
From: Nieminen Juha
Date: 1 Sep 1999 05:23:37
Message: <37ccf099@news.povray.org>
Peter Cracknell <pc### [at] lineonenet> wrote:
: And so if multiplied by 255, should give the colours?

  Where did you get that number 255? Not from the povray documentation, that's
sure.
  Povray uses colors from 0 to 1. 0 is completely dark and 1 is completely
lit.
  That 255 makes no sense. Some image formats (for example png) can use,
for example, 65536 values per color component.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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