POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Capriccio v.9 : Re: Capriccio v.9 Server Time
13 Aug 2024 19:30:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Capriccio v.9  
From: Edward Coffey
Date: 14 Apr 2003 21:29:49
Message: <3E9B63D2.8080508@alphalink.com.au>
Will W wrote:
> Thanks very much, Gena! By jumping back and forth between what you've
> written and the POV-Ray docs, I've learned a bit.
> 
> I've got my display_gamma set to 1.8, which is appropriate for my system,
> which means that I've got POV's equivalent of an artist's studio with large
> north-facing windows: a neutral environment for selecting colors and
> brightness levels. When I use assumed_gamma 1, POV will use my display_gamma
> without any further adjustment to correct the pixels it writes to the image
> file. The result will be the best I can hope for in terms of viewabiltiy on
> other systems. If I want to tune my jpgs to look their best on PC systems,
> then I should set the assumed_gamma to 2.2 (and accept that fact that Mac
> users will see a poorer image).

Did you mean "set the display_gamma to 2.2" in that last sentance?


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