Best explanation I've found so far... http://www.vtiscan.com/~rwb/gamma.html
Some more information on brightness in general... http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~harrison/P202/PDF/05-perception-of-brightness-4up.pdf (there's probably something better out there.) --krishna On Monday 25 March 2002 09:04 am, Ely, Gerald (USPC.PCT.Hopewell) wrote: > I stumbled on references to gamma but have not made the > connection you found. Gamma is supposed to be some kind of > 'general' rating of monitors relative to how exact they reproduce > colors. In theory, by calibrating you monitor with the correct > gamma setting, you should be reproducing colors optimally. > Different monitors calibrated to their gamma setting should > produce 'identical' color results. My acer monitor at home is a > 2.5. Hope this helps. > Jerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Krishna Tateneni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Misc: XFree86 config tip > > > Maybe I'm the last dope on the planet to find out about this > really nifty setting in the XFree86 config file, but just in > case, I thought I'd share: > > In the "Monitor" section, you can put a line like: > Gamma <number> > where the default is 1.0. I tried 0.5, and all of a sudden, > my laptop display panel looks a whole lot better! It feels > like the contrast has been turned down, and the colors seem > more vibrant than before. > > --krishna > > p.s. I'm going to be out of town on Apr 2, which I believe > is our next scheduled meeting. May seems like it's too far > away, I wish we could meet sometime in between :)
