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  Re: Lonely sunflower  
From: Alain
Date: 27 Mar 2008 18:58:26
Message: <47ec34a2$1@news.povray.org>
Larry Hudson nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/03/26 21:22:
> Warp wrote:
>> Nekar Xenos wrote:
>>
>>> The first one was rendered in 3.7 Beta with media and radiosity. 
>>> here's the same file with 3.6
>>
>>
>>   I think you had different gamma settings. (3.7 uses different default
>> gamma for some reason.)
> 
> I'm getting a strange effect with these images apparently due to the 
> gamma settings.  In Thunderbird the first image looks very pale and 
> washed out and the second one is much darker -- contrast is still rather 
> low, but definitely _much_ darker.  However, when I save them and look 
> at them with a separate graphics viewer (GQview or the GIMP in Linux) 
> they both look the same.
> 
> Very puzzling...     :-/
> 
>      -=- Larry -=-
Switching between the two versions, I can see:
The noise generatior is different. The brick wall is more interesting in yhe 3.7 
version.
The lighting under the overhanging parts is different.


-- 
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you look at real clouds and 
criticise their media and radiosity settings.
Tom Melly


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