Overall, a better image quality with a few small modifications. You can see that with gamma correction, the (updated) color values work more nicely together and darker areas show more details. This becomes more obvious as more advanced lighting algorithms are in place, as you can see in the image below: Note that the monitor (CRT) and linear graph both start and end at the same position it is the intermediate values that are darkened by the display.Д«ecause colors are configured based on the display's output, all intermediate (lighting) calculations in linear-space are physically incorrect. For this reason, we (and artists) generally set lighting values way brighter than they should be (since the monitor darkens them) which as a result makes most linear-space calculations incorrect. Up until this chapter we have assumed we were working in linear space, but we've actually been working in the monitor's output space so all colors and lighting variables we configured weren't physically correct, but merely looked (sort of) right on our monitor. Here's where the issues start to rise: once we double the dark-red light in linear space, it actually becomes more than 4.5 times as bright on the monitor! However, the original color gets displayed on the monitor as (0.218, 0.0, 0.0) as you can see from the graph. If we would double this light in linear space it would become (1.0, 0.0, 0.0) as you can see in the graph. For instance, take a light's color vector (0.5, 0.0, 0.0) which represents a semi-dark red light. If we double a color in linear space, its result is indeed double the value. The dotted line represents color/light values in linear space and the solid line represents the color space that monitors display.

This non-linear mapping of monitors does output more pleasing brightness results for our eyes, but when it comes to rendering graphics there is one issue: all the color and brightness options we configure in our applications are based on what we perceive from the monitor and thus all the options are actually non-linear brightness/color options. At the bottom scale, doubling the brightness returns the correct physical brightness, but since our eyes perceive brightness differently (more susceptible to changes in dark colors) it looks weird.Д«ecause the human eyes prefer to see brightness colors according to the top scale, monitors (still today) use a power relationship for displaying output colors so that the original physical brightness colors are mapped to the non-linear brightness colors in the top scale. amount of photons leaving a light source, the bottom scale actually displays the correct brightness. However, when we're talking about the physical brightness of light e.g. The top line looks like the correct brightness scale to the human eye, doubling the brightness (from 0.1 to 0.2 for example) does indeed look like it's twice as bright with nice consistent differences. To better understand what this all means take a look at the following image: This happens to (coincidently) also closely match how human beings measure brightness as brightness is also displayed with a similar (inverse) power relationship. Doubling the input voltage resulted in a brightness equal to an exponential relationship of roughly 2.2 known as the gamma of a monitor. These monitors had the physical property that twice the input voltage did not result in twice the amount of brightness.

In the old days of digital imaging most monitors were cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors. Gamma Correction Advanced-Lighting/Gamma-CorrectionДЄs soon as we compute the final pixel colors of the scene we will have to display them on a monitor.

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