Thomas Schmitt (12022-07-25): > On my screen i (individually) see pure green brighter than pure red which > is brighter than pure blue: > xterm -bg '#ff0000' & > xterm -bg '#00ff00' & > xterm -bg '#0000ff' &
Yes, it is perfectly normal. > Nevertheless a slight overweight of blue can create a blue-ish impression: > xterm -bg '#e0e0ff' & > Note that the sum of red and green is 1.75 times brighter than blue. Nitpick on this sentence: you forgot to take into account the fact that these value are not linear. A gray that is halfway between black and white in linear space: perl -e 'print "P5\n1023 1023\n255\n", "\0\xFF" x (1023*512)' | display - is somewhere between #AAA and #CCC. Key word: gamma. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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