POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.advanced-users: JPG-output with povray for windows v3.5: Re: JPG-output with povray for windows v3.5

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From: Thierry Boudet
Date: 20 Feb 2004 04:46:58
Message: <4035d792$1@news.povray.org>

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
>>  Then every existing image format is lossy because POV-Ray calculates
>>the color components as 32-bit floats. Converting them eg. to
>>8 bits-per-component or even 16 bits-per-component image (eg. PNG)
>>is lossy.
> 
> I would not be surprised if floating-point colors were part of some TIFF
> format specification ;-)
> 
     Or maybe FITS standard for astronomical pictures ?

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