Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cadovax!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wishlist for A3000 Message-ID: <2301@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 02:40:20 EST Article-I.D.: gryphon.2301 Posted: Sun Nov 15 02:40:20 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Nov-87 04:22:30 EST Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 80 Summary: Let me say this about that... In article <1364@squeaker.munsell.UUCP> squeaky wierd Kevin sez: >In article <2213@gryphon.CTS.COM> I blathered: >> >> >>Mandatory. Hard disks arn't a luxury any more. > >Got that right. Unfortunately a lot of us who would *love* to drive a >Porsche are, through financial necessity, stuck with a Hyundai. > >Necessary equipment. Luxury prices. (whimper) Good point. What i *meant* was that the circuitry to support hard drives should be standard (ok, if thats to expensive, leave the damn chips out, just provide the circuit, and sockets, I'll stick in the disk controller chip(s) and hook up a drive) >>Not bad. But I'd like to see other configurations, like 16 Meg >>simultaneous colors (optional) and higher resolutions available >>as 'other' video modes. > >Higher res, yes! 16 meg colors? WHY??!! Your eye can't see that many! Well, I;m certainly not going to argue color with a guy from Eikonix, especially one in a bad mood because he can't go skiing. But. That number of colors would be required to represent what is generally accepted to be "true color". To be able to image ANYTHING, you need that many colors. To do continuous tone bleeds form one color to another you need a lot of colors and and and and... Hey, dammit, I'm the customer, I have 16 Meg colors on other machines, I want 16 meg colors on my next amiga. Now granted, not everybody might, ok, start with a baseline of 4 or 8 planes, and LET THE USER ADD BITPLANES by just stuffing in some chips or SIMS or whatever. >Granted that for doing real image processing you need that precision >internally (8 bits each of R,G, and B; or uvL or what have you), but for >display purposes you only need between 2K and 4K colors to get excellent >results on a HIGH RES monitor (at least 1K x 1K.) Any more colors than that Huh ? Depends on the width of the dacs. We have 4K colors right now, but I only have 16 shades of blue at my disposal. Yes, I know I can play games like: (0,0,1) (1,0,1) (0,1,1) (0,0,2) etc... to do continuous tone transition of black to bright blue, and I have done this, but you can tell. You see a blue band, then a greenish-blue band, then a reddish-blue band, than another blue band etc. So it's not the number of colors, but the width of the dacs. Systems with 8 planes, but 8-bit dacs, can do some spectacular stuff. >We do something similar to that on the >display section of our electronic publishing system. We use full color >imagery. Our display is less than 24 bits and it looks very very good. Oh yeah, so tell us how. Unless of course it's proprietry. In which case just email it to me :-) >Of course, having your monitor calibrated to a reference standard, and having >your software calibrated to your monitor helps too. :-) You're no fun. Trying to guess what color your print-out or slide is going to come out is half the fun. >Kevin McBride -- Richard J. Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition..."