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- From: David Marshall <D.P.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What NEW Amigas SHOULD have
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 18:40:50 GMT
- Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK
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- m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) wrote:
- >Similarly, human eyes can't detect the difference above 24 bit (8 bits per
- >gun). I doubt many people could even tell the difference between a 21 bit
- >picture and a 24 bit one.
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- The "usual figure" is that the eye can detect about 14 million different
- colours BUT the distribution of recognition isn't linear as it is with 8 bits
- per gun. The ratio of "recognizable levels" of R:G:B is about 3:6:1.
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- Dave
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