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31 Jul 2024 00:26:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: png gamma error  
From: Jon A  Cruz
Date: 24 Sep 2001 04:04:55
Message: <3BAEE8A6.C4301557@geocities.com>
Warp wrote:

>   I have noticed this error some time ago.
>
>   The problem seems that POV-Ray outputs to the PNG file a gamma value of
> 1.0 while it should be 1.0/Display_Gamma, which would give the correct result.
>   (Another solution is to not to output any gamma value to the PNG... But
> then the Display_Gamma option would not have effect on the final image; this
> may even be better...)

I REALLY like the idea that display gamma has no effect whatsoever on the output
file. I would assume that assumed gamma would.

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Jon A. Cruz
http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/action.html


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