POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : rgb <x,yz> Color Tool : Re: rgb <x,yz> Color Tool Server Time
28 Jul 2024 06:15:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: rgb <x,yz> Color Tool  
From: Andreas Gerdes
Date: 20 Nov 1999 09:44:06
Message: <3836aecd.2720155@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:49:08 -0500, Phil Clute <pcl### [at] tiacnet>
wrote:

>This little program is so cool I had to put it in my tools menu.
>
:-)

>I do have a question though. I noticed that white is 
>rgb <0.99609, 0.99609, 0.99609> why isn't it rgb<1, 1, 1>?

To cite Jon A. Cruz
>>"Because 255 / 255 = 1, whereas 255/256 = 0.99609375"

I have to devide by 256, else all other values would get false,
and I do not want to add any extra calculations, because that would
slow down the program - in a most minimal manner but it could be
problematic, though: while scrolling color values, many calculations
are done: I'm always frightened that slower machines could react in a
strange way.

>
>O.K. I also have a feature suggestion(This is for incredibly
>lazy people--like me), could you add a checkbox option to attach
>pigment{} around the rgb<>? 

I did not use POV seriously in the last time, but I do know this kind
of  laziness and added this option to the context menu of the pov
value label

Bye
Andreas


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