On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:13:59 -0700, "Jason F. Kowalski"
<jfk### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>"IMBJR" <no### [at] spamhere> wrote
>> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 04:03:44 -0700, "Jason F. Kowalski"
>
>> >"IMBJR" <no### [at] spamhere> wrote
>> >What's the point of posting in JPEG2000?
>
>> In this case, preservation of the 16-bit output of POV.
>
>Since most video cards (not to mention LCDs) cannot display that, what's the
>point (unless it's a height map or somesuch intermediate data) ?
>

Preservation of the output of POV-Ray is the point, plus an attempt to
avoid gradient banding. However, this is all at the mercy of the
receiving end.
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