Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: COLOR SCANNING.
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.143121.4841@druid.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 89 14:31:21 GMT
References: <13428@s.ms.uky.edu> <3184@com50.C2S.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <3184@com50.C2S.MN.ORG> chris@com2serv.c2s.mn.org (Chris Johnson) writes:
>In article <13428@s.ms.uky.edu> munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra) writes:
>>to get a good scan. But with 32 levels of each R,G & B. I don't see
>
>Maybe this goes without saying in this newsgroup, but 24 bits of color
>value for RGB might be called near photographic quality, as far as color
>rendition goes, but 5 bits (32 levels) probably is not very close.

In fact it isn't quite that bad.  Munish mentions 32 levels each so the
comparison is 5 to 8 or 15 to 24, not 5 to 24.  This of course isn't
phoygraphic quality but some of the images done on 15 bit (usually
16 bit with one bit for overlay) display boards can be quite impressive
depending on the rendering software.


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