In article <mat### [at] netplexaussieorg>,
 Matthew Pace <mat### [at] lycoscom> wrote:

> I thought that I read somewhere that a light defined as color rgb 2 
> would be white, but twice as bright as normal.  Is this true?  Did 
> anyone else read this? Am I insane?  I didnt think this was possible, as 
> the light could only get so bright, but please put my doubts to rest.

Well, I pretty much just said so, though not using that specific 
example. It is white and twice as bright as rgb < 1, 1, 1>. Your monitor 
can only display colors with a limitedd range of brightness and most 
file formats only store percentages of maximum brightness rather than 
absolute brightness, so the colors are clipped at output. There is no 
difference in the final output between a color that the camera saw as < 
2, 7, 1> and one that was only < 1, 1, 1>.

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