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5 Nov 2024 12:36:42 EST (-0500)
  Re: bug or am I silly?  
From: Daniel Hulme
Date: 31 Jul 2005 14:28:18
Message: <20050731192819.1130f891@dh286.pem.cam.ac.uk>
> I wouldn't believe it but I see the banding in my reder (3.6.1)
> as well. A color analysis via gimp showed that the color
> of neighbouring bands differ by just one value step (8 bit: 1 step 
> 1/255). This means that a smooth gray gradient with closed one color 
> fields cannot be achieved with 24bit colours.
More precisely, it can't be achieved with 24-bit RGB. There are colour
bases in which 24-bit precision is easily enough to get a smooth
gradient.

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