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POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Can POV make use of 48 bpp color images as detailed height fields? : Re: Can POV make use of 48 bpp color images as detailed height fields?		Server Time 30 Jul 2024 18:18:40 EDT (-0400)

From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 12 Oct 2001 14:17:09
Message: <3bc733a5@news.povray.org>

In article <3bc72ce7@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

> : You can also use
> : 48-bit per pixel (16-bit per color component) PNG images of which only the
> : read channel will be used.
>
>   You mean the red channel? Why?

Ups, "red" of course.  What else should be used as the height of a color
image?  Any method to get a grayscale value out of an RGB image is
different.  How many and which one should be supported?

    Thorsten

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