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From: brian@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Brian Rauchfuss)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: VGA Colors
Message-ID: <17400014@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 15:37:18 GMT
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/ hpfcdj:comp.graphics / U5569462@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (DAVID CLUNIE) /  4:27 pm  Nov 11, 1989 /
>Which brings me to the point that I have read somewhere recently (can't
>remember where) that the human eye CAN'T distinguish any more than 64 different
>shades of grey. Is this so ? Do people beleive it ?
>
>Regards ... David
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Everyone around here can distinquish 256 shades of gray, but a dark room is
required.  64 shades are very easy to distinquish.

Brian Rauchfuss