On 5/4/2019 3:51 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
What about 16 bit colors?
16-bit total or 16/channel, since 16/channel is the next image revolution technology, but it may take alot longer than 8/channel did to take a hold, because human vision is limited to seeing 12-13 bits/channel at any 1 time. Over time with pupil dilation, squinty-eyes and rod-vision, some of the contrast could take around 20bits, BUT that would never be useful all at once for unaided human vision -- but would be good for information storage, and ultra-wide contrast phots in high def that might be viewed one section at a time -- say in using textures in rendering 3-D images under different types of light -- from starlight/moonlight to bright sunlight. Unfortunately those most interested in the finer details are more likely to have age-reduced contrast as with higher contrasts resulting in more glare than depth of color. (sigh).
A problem was that the VGA (SVGA?) displays of that the time could not display 256 levels of gray (or any single colour), just 64 (with a color map).
Not to mention most home monitors didn't might be hard pressed to display that contrast -- those probably more home monitors then than now with LCD's dominating. While video screens boast 10-12bit color "deep color" for video playback, I've seen no mass market monitors for computers and even there, most consumer video cards won't reproduce them except through video "deep-color" type tech, with true 10-12 bit cards (at least a few years ago) requiring Quadro cost cards instead of the higher-performance GTX cards. I swear, its frickin market fixing to only have/allow those features in cards with 1/3 perf for triple the price -- just like 10 years ago, you "had" to have a quadro card to use 3D acceleration features in adobe products -- until some people figured out what file to edit that enabled the GTX cards too and the restriction was found to be a pricing scam. Same thing now, since the GTX cards can repro 10-12 bit for "video screens", but not higher-res computer monitors...*bleh*. Still that wall may fall faster than I expect with 4K and 8K content being produced. There will be pressure to have 10-12bit color on higher res screens from that end. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org