In article <4034dd69@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> I would not be surprised if floating-point colors were part of some TIFF
> format specification ;-)

There is...96 bits per pixel. Not often used for this reason...a 
1600x1200 image would take 21MB. There are other formats that use about 
half as much. They do so with less precision, but 32 bits per component 
is overkill for most things.

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