POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Display Problem : Re: Display Problem Server Time
29 Jul 2024 04:16:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Display Problem  
From: Lewis Sellers
Date: 6 Oct 1998 22:18:53
Message: <361AC190.59B84AA4@usit.net>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> Im Beitrag <361AA54C.7D163D36@usit.net> , Lewis Sellers <lse### [at] usitnet> 
schrieb:
> 
> >Anyway, the point I was making was that usually displaying a truecolor
> >(or millions if you're on a mac) image in 16bit hicolor (or thousands on
> >a mac) mode means that the the software simply drops off the least
> >significant color bits as 3:2:3. And that causes a lack of color
> >smoothness.
> 
> Just a sidenote: The Mac 3.1 version has *full* dithering in whatever resolution you
run it. And we can even view the alpha-channel - it works just the way Photoshop does
it :-)

Hmm. I actually had no idea how mac hardware handles such things. Nice
to know it dithers though. :)

> 
>     Thorsten
> 
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany

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