POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Back to the future : Re: Back to the future Server Time
14 Nov 2024 16:11:02 EST (-0500)
  Re: Back to the future  
From: Chambers
Date: 28 Jul 2008 05:08:06
Message: <488d8c76$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> 16 colours out of 16, verses 32 out of 4,096? Seems like a fairly big 
>> difference to me. ;-)
> 
> Yeh saying that, we've been stuck at 2^24 out of 2^24 for a while now... 
> ;-)

Wasn't the Parhelia that board that did 10 bits per channel, back around 
2004?  It also offered tri-monitor support for "surround gaming", or 
something.

I know people claim you can't tell the difference with more bits, but 
honestly I still see banding in "truecolor" (ie 8 bits per channel) images.

I can't wait for the day that double precision colors become mainstream, 
and DACs offer 16 or 32 bits per channel in the display :)

...Chambers


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