[Radiance-general] ximage vs. pcond

[Gregory J. Ward]

Bear in mind that normtiff (and ximage -e auto) don't do everything 
pcond can do.  In particular, they cannot simulate human loss in acuity 
and veiling glare, so if you really want "pcond -h", don't expect 
"normtiff -h" to work as a substitute.  Also, if you are converting 
animation frames and want all the frames to use the same tone-mapping, 
pcond -I works with the output of phisto, whereas there is no such 
option in normtiff.

Just had to throw in some caveats.
-Greg

> From: "Rob Guglielmetti" <rpg at rumblestrip.org>
> Date: April 18, 2005 11:17:31 AM PDT
>
> On Mon, April 18, 2005 12:27 pm, Gregory J. Ward said:
>
>> If you want your output to match the ximage display, I suggest you use
>> normtiff rather than pcond, which performs tone-mapping using the same
>> algorithms in ximage, and converts to a 24-bit RGB TIFF output.
>
> The bad thing about Radiance is its enormous depth.
>
> The good thing about Radiance is its enormous depth.
>
> Would you believe I've never used this program, normtiff?!  Don't 
> answer
> that.  I've always run pcond -h then used ra_tiff to get tiffs that I
> could print.  And wouldn't you know it, just today I'm working on some
> images that needed to go through this process; I just used normtiff
> instead and they look *much* better (and it's one less step, to boot).
> Bliss.
>
> -- 
> Rob Guglielmetti
> www.rumblestrip.org