On 02/15/2013 12:54 PM, Alain wrote:

>> On 02/15/2013 06:03 AM, Kenneth wrote:
>>> James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
>>>> messing around with a blender torus knot plug-in ...
>>>
>>> I'm always leery of .png images and how they show up in web browsers
>>> (a legacy
>>> of the past, I guess; can't shake that feeling.) As your post looks a
>>> bit dark
>>> on my end, I was wondering if I'm seeing what you see. Of course, the
>>> look may
>>> be just as you intended; but here's a screenshot (as seen in latest
>>> Firefox on
>>> my Windows XP machine) and saved as a .jpeg.
>>>
>>
>> hmmm ... thanks for the feedback on darkness you guy's. i'm fooling
>> around with a back-lit approach and obviously it still needs help. one
>> thing i /did/ change this morning was to bump up the fade_distance on
>> the glass material. where i'd like to end up with this is glass that has
>> some zing to it while muting the background ... maybe a fools errand :-)
>>
>> btw: the screen shot doesn't look overly dark to me
>
> It looks as dark to me than the original. I wonder if it have anything
> to do with my CTR monitor compared to the LCD ones... My display gamma
> is at about 2.5. If I increase the brightness to correctly see the
> image, my text becomes all blury.
>

could be ... it looks the same in preview window, gwenview, gimp, t-bird 
(this post) and f-fox (on my blog) ... sometime ago i went through all 
the gymnastics of getting my display calibrated (gamma-wise) so i'm at a 
loss. since the object is back-lit you'd expect the foreground to be 
dark-ish right?

jim

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