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24-bit color sucks

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Re: 24-bit color sucks

#12
post #7

Am I the only person who couldn't tell the difference in that horizontal gradient example?

I can't on my MacBook or external screen. I tried on my iPhone—assuming that the screen might be lower quality—sadly the website blew up and there was no gradient to be found.

Re: 24-bit color sucks

#15
I agree. Displays in general suck. The display on the RMBP is a step in the right direction, but there's still a lot of work to be done. Anyone who settles for "good enough" may as well live life like it's the 16th century. It was "good enough" then too.

My vision for the future? Specifications that fully exceed the human capacity for discernibility.

2880x1800? Nope, I can still see aliasing (particularly in Terminal when I'm coding).

IPS? Nope. Move your head slightly up and down and -- while the chromaticity stays (roughly) the same -- the luminance does not.

Black levels? I can still distinguish a black screen from the bezel, so it needs some work too.

Color depth? See the provided banding examples. Not to mention that the three primaries in most LCD panels form a very small triangle in the chromaticity diagram.

Refresh rates also stink. It's 2012 -- motion should be so fluid it looks real by now.

Anyway, there's a lot of potential for improvement but I'm afraid if you're not OCD (like me) or a color scientist, most people just don't care too much.

Re: 24-bit color sucks

#19

Your site design is cool, but the motion is interfering with readability.

You are not the only one. I couldn't keep my eye focus on the text due to the rotating background, and closed the website after reading the first two paragraphs.
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