> > You do realize that potentially no monitor, and certainly no LCD screen, > > can output this level of color, right? (Perhaps they dither it down?) > > 10 bits per channel is primarily useful for internal calculations, as > > far as I know. > > > > So you'd better start your investigation with: "can I even see 10 bits > > per channel?" rather than "how?". > > To my knowledge, a monitor is an analogous device, that can potetially > display _any number_ of intermediate shades of each primary colour. > > The delimiting factor, I agree, would be the human eye! I wonder, if it > is capable of distinguishing between 1024 shades of a primary color?
Broadcast television has been using 10 bits per colour for some conciderable time. If you try and display a shaded field, going from one level to another, 4 horizontal or vertical pixels at the same colour can be seen as a step, while the same thing with four quarter steps ( the difference between 8 bit and 10 bit ) will resture the smooth appearance. So while the eye can't distinguish 1024 shades, it can distinguish 256 shades and so a slow graduation of colour becomes 'steppy'. -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
