POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : understanding gamma : Re: understanding gamma Server Time
2 Nov 2024 15:28:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: understanding gamma  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 27 Nov 2003 11:27:50
Message: <cjameshuff-BBB421.11254227112003@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3fc5b224@news.povray.org>,
 Bill Hails <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote:

> In that case, if when someone posts an image they mention their
> own gamma settings, it should be possible to calculate a gamma
> setting for viewing the image locally, either my_gamma / their_gamma
> or its inverse, not sure which :-), assuming a viewer
> that allows a numerical setting of the gamma.

Yes, if you know the gamma the image was viewed with, you can correct it 
to display properly with your gamma, doing manually what the PNG gamma 
is supposed to do automatically.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
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