Based on the stage design by art director Yukimasa Okumura for the YMO 
performance in 1981.
I used an aged video tape (recorded from Japanese TV) as reference but 
have actually seen them life at Budokan in 1983 ;)

This image is basically the result of experimenting with Adobe-RGB (and 
it's wider gamut compared to sRGB) as working color space for rendering 
within POV-Ray. As my monitor fully covers the Adobe-RGB gamut I can 
visually design the colors and push them to the limits.
The interesting and surprising thing is: I do even get more vibrant 
colors and a better preservation of subtle texture details when 
rendering within Adobe-RGB and converting the final image to sRGB (by 
using ICC profiles) compared to defining the colors already within sRGB 
and rendering within sRGB. This was something that I did not expect and 
after having rechecked my color management pipeline I think that indeed 
the diffuse radiosity bounces do produce more vibrant and maybe more 
realistic results within the wider gamut.

Sadly the JPEG compression does make things even worse for this kind of 
image but anyway here is the (into sRGB converted) JPEG version - quite 
poor compared to the full blown 1920x1200 uncompressed Adobe-RGB image 
that I currently use as desktop background.

-Ive

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