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  Re: We need a gamma 1.0 color-picker app (?)  
From: Kenneth
Date: 19 Jan 2011 01:35:00
Message: <web.4d3685a2c140d037196b08580@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 17.01.2011 21:53, schrieb Kenneth:
>
> > This code insertion is based on the assumed_gamma scene setting; if 1.0, then
> > the contents of the 1.0 boxes are inserted into the scene; if 2.2, then the 2.2
> > box contents are used.
>
> That won't work. Due to how the POV-Ray SDL works, it would require
> parsing of the whole scene just to figure out the effective
> assumed_gamma setting.

You're right. :-[  It didn't occur to me that the color-picker would somehow
have to 'magically guess' what was written in the SDL scene; the code is just a
text file, after all. (Hmm...maybe the app could do a quick text search, looking
for 'assumed_gamma'?? Kidding. Or maybe not...)


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