On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:07:59 -0600, "Mike Raiford"
<mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>"IMBJR" <no### [at] spamhere> wrote in message
>news:3eoh40p2s9jd1t8o03thoj1iv5i4jo12b0@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:58:17 -0600, "Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote:
>>
>> Whilst I appreciate the idea behind reposting the image in standard
>> JPEG format, you have only succeeded in introducing artifacts and a
>> drop in colour-depth. The end result is a defacing of my original
>> posting.
>>
>> Please don't do this in the future. How would you like it if I took
>> your postings and reposted then as 4 colour GIFs or worse?
>
>FWIW, Most people aren't even going to be able to see the difference in the
>16bit/Component color as opposed to 8bit/C color. So, why not just post it
>as a standard jpg and save people who may not be compatible with a lesser
>known format.

Two words: gradient banding - and people can see it. Since POV is
capable of 16-bit colour depth I chose to utilise it and keep that
depth for the on-line version too.

However, how a particular piece of software or hardware device
displays a 16-bit image is another matter which is pretty much out of
my hands. Even with a 16-bit image, some platforms may introduce
banding as they attempt to display the image in a reduced depth.

Still, at least with a 16-bit colour depth image, the gradient-banding
reduction intent is there.

>
>I don't necessarily  think the posting of a standard JPG is nearly as bad as
>posting a "4 colour GIF". 

Perhaps not, but the reposted image looked horrible compared to the
way I prepared it. I do not think it was a good idea to repost the
image in a manner that detracted from the original.

>People use a wide variety of OSes on these groups
>(remember, POV-Ray is multi-platform), some may not have access to tools to
>view a JPEG2000 file.

Different strokes yadda yadda. If you can see it, fine - if you
cannot, fine. I have merely presented the image in the manner in which
I intended it to be.

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