NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/graphics/8095

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Banding Still Imminent in AGA 256,000 color mode!
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Date: 19 Dec 92 01:06:55 -0400
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Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Lionel Tun) writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Andre T. Yew) writes:
>>[e-mail] (Robert Peter Poole) writes:
>>>Really, anything beyond 24 bits is a waste of hardware.  Even with 24 bits,
>>>you're wasting most of those bits (kind of).
>>
>>    I think I disagree with this.  What if I need more than 256
>>shades of some hue?  What if the precision of our rendering software
>>is much, much higher than 8-bits and we need that precision?
>
> I remember from somewhere that the human eye can only resolve
> about 100 to 200 greylevels locally. NB locally, because after
> adaptation the dynamic range of the human eye is immense.


  Hey guys, what about MASKING, like in TV PAINT.  This really only Works well
if you have a 32 bit pallette!!!

   By the way what ever happened to ColorBurst, The card that advertised a
48 bit palette???????????????

                                                 Tony Tage
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