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> Academics have told us that human eyes can't distinguish between the 16,777,216 colors provided by 24-bit depth, so we believe that even though it can't be true. This is a fallacy. That the human eye cannot distinguish N different colours does not imply that a given colour space of >N colours contains every colour that the human eye can distinguish. To give an equivalent example that is easier to understand, consid…
I'm missing the part about what awesome thing would be possible to do with higher-bit displays. The answer for higher-DPI displays is obvious: everything looks sharper, all the time. While it may be true that 30-bit color would allow the gradient between those two grays to be gradual instead of a single step, when does someone actually want to draw a gradient between such similar shades of gray?
Am I the only person who couldn't tell the difference in that horizontal gradient example?
Safari renders both sides as rgba(72, 72, 72, 1.0). I have no idea why. Perhaps (ironically) a dithering algorithm gone wrong. In chrome the divide is visible.
I can't see the gradient step on my 13" MBA as hard as I try. Those extra bits would definitely be wasted on me.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41756 Issue 41756: WebKit gradients show banding on Chrome
What on earth is with all the motion on the website. Just because you can do animation doesn't mean you should.
It made the point about being able to distinguish fine colour gradients virtually impossible to verify - the background kept changing. Also, it slowed site scrolling to a crawl on this reasonably beefy desktop machine.
> Academics have told us that human eyes can't distinguish between the 16,777,216 colors provided by 24-bit depth, so we believe that even though it can't be true. This is a fallacy. That the human eye cannot distinguish N different colours does not imply that a given colour space of >N colours contains every colour that the human eye can distinguish. To give an equivalent example that is easier to understand, consid…
You are in violent agreement with the author. This is what he says as well.
What problem does 30 bit color depth solve? The obvious answer (or strawman) might be aesthetics. Yet two bits is sufficient to create art. Each medium has its limitations. Pen and ink, watercolor, clay - why should a computer screen be seen as inherently different? We tend to view computer art on our own often miscalibrated displays, under variable lighting conditions, and at a variety of resolutions. Computer art i…
Let's only use two bits then!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's only use two bits then!
Are you really trying to suggest that the difference between the 24-bit color that we already can't reliably reproduce on current monitors and the 30-bit of the author, is the same order of magnitude as between 24-bit and 2-bit monochrome?