I heard the human eye can in fact distinguish something like two million
colors. Whether this is necessary is another question.
What's not in question is that 262,144 colors need 2 bits more per pixel
than 65536 colors and that's a potential 12.5% price increase for the same
size of a picture in packet fees (not counting compression here, for jpeg's
it wouln't make a difference at all afaik). Subtle opportunity to increase
prices (more difficult with products like milk and butter where at least in
Germany there's a law on how much empty space you may package)! Same is true
for an increase of screen format - if widely adopted.
Regards
marc
> The latest FOMA phones have 262,144 colors. Does anyone know
> whether it's possible to tell the difference between
> 65k colors and 262k colors (except maybe on Juergen's super-pix)...
>
> Gerhard Fasol
> http://www.eurotechnology.com/
Received on Thu Apr 4 13:40:05 2002