"Orchid XP v3" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> >> Although I have to say, they lack saturation somewhat.
> >
> > I could agree. I colored them with this as the interior fade_color:
> >
> > <0.5+(rand(s1)*0.5), 0.5+(rand(s1)*0.5), 0.5+(rand(s1)*0.5)>
> >
> > so there's less chance for fully saturated colors.
>
> I suspected as much.
>
> I wrote a generator somewhere which is guaranteed to provide maximum
> saturation colours... but it's not what you'd call "short".
>
> (Notice that all saturated colours have exactly 1 component that is 0%,
> and at least 1 component that is exactly 100%. The 3rd component is
> random - as is which one is which.)

ah, i also had "exponent 3" in the reflection block. i think that's what
*really* made it noticeably unsaturated.

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