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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!feenix.metronet.com!skephart
From: skephart@metronet.com (Scott Kephart)
Subject: Re: Gamma Correction: How dark should Doom be?
Message-ID: <CtqGp8.Hss@metronet.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 03:07:55 GMT
References: <RICHV.94Jul29151830@hpingll.cup.hp.com> <31c274$884@hermes.unt.edu> <genghis.775523954@ilces> <31c9da$9tp@hermes.unt.edu>
Organization: Texas Metronet, Internet for the Individual 214-705-2901 (info)
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In article <31c9da$9tp@hermes.unt.edu>,
Barry Bloom <barry@jove.acs.unt.edu> wrote:
>
>I agree with you there. I am talking about situations where everyone has
>"new" monitors. I can see everything just fine without gamma correction
>and my monitor is 4 years old. However, the guy I play with has a
>seventeen inch .28 dot pitch, 6 month old monitor. He turns up gamma
>correction and it looks like he is playing with lite amp goggles all the
>time! I say this is an advantage to both depth perception (read aiming) and
>"out of the corner of your eye" sightings.
>
>Anyway, I asked Mr. Romero and he said, "There is nothing wrong with using
>gamma correction." So, nevermind.
>
>I'll just crank mine up like everyone else.
>
>
>"THE PROJECT" 9 new levels, 60+ graphics patches, new original music,
>and much much more. Look for it (LATE) August 1st at Infant2.
>--
>barry@noc.unt.edu
>DOOM FTP ADMIN infant2.sphs.indiana.edu /pub/doom
>--
Actually, it has nothing to do with the age of the monitor. I've got a
17" Nanao monitor that is quite bright in Doom, even though it's two
years old, and a new 17" Viewsonic monitor that is really dark. It's
really a combination of the monitor, and the voltage output by the video
card. Some video cards are really, really bright. (For instance, the ones
made by STB tend to be really bright.) I'm currently running one of the
ATI mach 64 cards, and it's a bit darker. The reference voltage put out
by the card has a lot to do with brightness. You are right that as
phosphors age, they tend to dim. Come to think of it, the same thing can
be said of many of us...
Scott