>From: "Frank Paris" <marshalt@spiritone.com>
>
>Here is Giorgianni and Madden's definition from "Digital Color Management":
>"Exponent of a power-law equation relating CRT luminance to control-signal
>voltage". Also, "The slope of the straight-line portion of a CRT
>characteristic curve relating log luminance to log voltage." Anyhow, that's
>why if you play with it, it changes the appearances of images on the
>screen.
>You're basically changing the voltage applied to the phosphors given a
>certain digital input value, thus changing the luminance. You're changing
>the shape of the curve of RGB value vs. voltage applied.
I bet that will satisfy his curiosity and teach him not to ask questions.
:-) <-- By the way, notice the smiley face -- I'm only joking.
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