On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 22:44:33 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>Why not perform the RGB->CMYK conversion in a separate program? This
>doesn't seem to need any information about the scene, so it doesn't
>benefit from being implemented as a postprocess filter. OTOH, it needs
>information about the output device, which povray doesn't (and
>shouldn't) have (except for gamma correction).

My thought was that it might benefit from having the higher-precision color
information that's available to a postprocess filter, but that might not make
it worthwhile.

But then, it wouldn't be the first postprocess filter that would be better
implemented in a separate program, would it?

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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