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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: Banding Still Imminent in AGA 256,000 color mode!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.191858.11288@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:18:58 GMT
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- In <1992Dec19.035831.21245@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@kimbark.uchicago.edu (steven joseph chmura) writes:
- >>Bottom line. 24 bits of color is plenty, unlike what you hear from other
- >>sources. The human eye cannot distiguish more than 2,000,000 colors.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Flame ON:
- > This has <nil scientific support. If you knew how the eye worked
- > you would realize this.
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- I'd say this is quite exact (although my literature says 4 million).
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- The question is _what_ 2 or 4 million colors and when are they visible
- (due to some image processing in the eye).
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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