Your WIP is fine, but I would raise assumed_gamma above 1.
Personally, after 5 years of using a gammavalue of 1 I now use 2.2 together 
with a brightness of 2.5.
In connection with my flat panel monitors this is a convincing solution for 
contrast problems I had too.

Regards
Norbert Kern



"Tim Nikias" <JUSTTHELOWERCASE:timISNOTnikias(at)gmx.netWARE> schrieb im 
Newsbeitrag news:4314fcd2@news.povray.org...
> Some of you might have seen my current WIP, the image currently entitled
> "Windows". I make excessive use of radiosity in that image to get a soft,
> realistic lighting.
>
> Anyways, I've fiddled with some of the images in Paint Shop Pro and 
> noticed
> that some higher contrast does a lot for the image. I'm a sucker for doing
> things right inside POV-Ray, so does anyone have ideas or techniques on 
> how
> to raise the contrast inside POV-Ray?
>
> My main trouble lies within the radiosity itself, though smooth enough, 
> I'd
> like darker shadows, but simply lowering brightness will also turn the
> bright areas darker.
>
> Anyways, suggestions or techniques (using the current "standard" POV-Ray,
> not some patch-version) are welcome. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> -- 
> "Tim Nikias v2.0"
> Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>
>
>

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