POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : bug or am I silly? : Re: bug or am I silly? Server Time
8 Aug 2024 14:22:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: bug or am I silly?  
From: scott
Date: 2 Aug 2005 04:37:14
Message: <42ef30ba$1@news.povray.org>
> I see this banding on the two computers we have---both are using crt
> monitors and are running in 32 bit (true color mode)....
> In PSP when doing a pure gray gradient, the banding is also
> visible....but when doing pure red or blue or green, the banding is
> not visible.
> I agree, as was said by some others, this is a limitation of  the 24
> bit nature of true color displays...will stick to using more color in
> pictures from now on...if I ever get a system capable of 48 bit color
> display, then I will try working with pure greyscale pictures again.

You could turn the contrast down on your monitor :-)


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