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Does any ACES documentation page (RGC pages, ACES 2 pages, aces-core changelog, AMF pages) say whether the Reference Gamut Compression is still recommended, optional or unnecessary in ACES 2.0 output pipelines?

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Scoped negative with useful adjacent statements. In the aces-docs files read at commit 7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62, no page states that the RGC is recommended, optional, unnecessary or deprecated for ACES 2.0 output pipelines: the four RGC pages and the two AMF pages contain no explicit 'ACES 2' / 'ACES 2.0' mention, and the aces-core changelog (commit 069b0bc) never names the RGC. What the docs do say: the RGC pages state an ACES 1.3-era 'always on' recommendation; the About-rendering page says ACES 2 does not show the clipping artifacts of ACES 1 even when the comparison ACES 1 image has the RGC applied; and the ACES 2 gamut-compression page says its curve was originally the same powerP curve as the RGC. These are statements about different things and do not amount to a recommendation for or against the RGC with ACES 2.

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[sourced_fact] Scoped negative with useful adjacent statements. In the aces-docs files read at commit 7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62, no page states that the RGC is recommended, optional, unnecessary or deprecated for ACES 2.0 output pipelines: the four RGC pages and the two AMF pages contain no explicit 'ACES 2' / 'ACES 2.0' mention, and the aces-core changelog (commit 069b0bc) never names the RGC. What the docs do say: the RGC pages state an ACES 1.3-era 'always on' recommendation; the About-rendering page says ACES 2 does not show the clipping artifacts of ACES 1 even when the comparison ACES 1 image has the RGC applied; and the ACES 2 gamut-compression page says its curve was originally the same powerP curve as the RGC. These are statements about different things and do not amount to a recommendation for or against the RGC with ACES 2. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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