Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> My laptop is 24-bit graphics modes. However, the physical display 
> hardware only supports 16-bit colour, and does dithering in hardware to 
> produce the rest. The end result is, obviously, horrid.

  The end result would often be more horrid without the dithering. The
second image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_dithering is a rather
good example of how dithering can actually help the quality of the image,
even if the dithering algorithm is braindead simple.

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