POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Saturation : Re: Saturation Server Time
28 Jul 2024 14:33:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Saturation  
From: Orchid XP v2
Date: 23 Apr 2005 10:27:54
Message: <426a5b6a@news.povray.org>
>>OK. Cos, one of the major problems I constantly have with POV-Ray is the
>>image is too dark, or it's too light, or it looks washed out, or part of
>>it is too bright but the rest is too dark, or......
> 
> 
> What you might want to try is to use more saturated colors to begin with.

Most of my scenes use things like rgb <1, 0, 0>. Can't get much more 
saturated than that... (I'm just not very imaginative with my colour 
choosing.)

> Additionally, using values above 1 for
> dominant colors on an object can increase the amount of color you'll get for
> less light. So even if a scene isn't lit with dominant lights, you'll get
> dominant colors.

Hmm... never ever tried doing that... (Although I do remember somebody 
tried using lights with negative RGB values to see what would happen.)


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