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5 Sep 2024 20:17:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: First entry  
From: Peter Cracknell
Date: 1 Sep 1999 15:47:29
Message: <37cd82d1@news.povray.org>
Thats the obvious fault, I'd got it into my head that RGB were between 1 &
255, rather than 0 and 1.  This is how the system is done for the net and
PSP etc, I obviously, assumed without checking and assumed wrong, thanks,
oops (yet again)

P3TE

Nieminen Juha <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote in message
news: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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