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From: shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Subject: Re: Who needs 24 bit colors
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.061410.22381@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 06:14:10 GMT

OK, here's a question.  How many bits of color resolution can the human
eye perceive?  I asked this question of a friend of mine who's a color
scientist, and (to my surprise) he didn't know.

I suppose I could make the question more operational by asking, "how many
segments would the color wheel need to have that even at high magnification
it would not be possible to see a boundary anywhere?"

	-P.
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