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October 7, 2020 at 9:18 am #60666
spikeyxxx
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    @ theluthier, I’m sure there is a good reason for that 😉 Maybe it’s standard practice?

    Anyway; @duerer and @theluthier : in the video it doesn’t make a difference, while there are no colors used in the Colorramp 🙂

    Here’s an example with two colors that both have a Value of 1:

    Here’s what OSL uses for Luminance:

    As you can see, if R, G and B are all the same, it doesn’t do anything, but returning the value of R, G and B, or one of them, as they are all the same:)