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From: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin [Being Weird Isn't Enough] McBride)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bitplanes from Hell (was: Re: Wishlist for A3000)
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Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 17:26:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 17:26:22 1987
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Summary: Warning: Silliness mixed in with seriousness.

In article <8711201930.AA27888@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>	Unfortunetly, you are wrong.  Mach Banding will occur even if you
>use a 4x4 dithering matrix WITH random based set generation.  With 16 levels
>you will see differences in pixels no matter what you use.  To get real
>color quality you need at least 64 levels (7 bits) per gun and a non-linear
>scaling.

What?  You don't agree with me?  What kind of an egotistical flaming
typical wombat aggie melon-humping cheese-whizzing nanosexual
subuseless clamsucker are you?  :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

(Thanks Leo, that was brilliant.  I'm going to use that phrase every day. :-)

Matt, I would suggest that you try to look a little bit beyond the obvious.
12 bits doesn't necssarily mean 4 bits per gun.  It means, in my case,
that you have a total of 4096 colors to play with at any one time.  My
palette is 16 million colors.  I'm firing with 8 bits per gun, I'm
just severly limiting the combinations that are allowed.  If I use the
*correct* 4096 colors I get results that are commercially acceptable
in a $500,000+ high-end publishing system. 

I'm starting to get a wee bit PO'd.  I'm trying to point out an
alternative.  It's an alternative that works.  We use it.  I don't
like the fact that people are telling me that it won't work.  It does.
If it doesn't work for you, it's because you're not doing it right. 

You people can tell me to go shit in my hat if you like, but show me
some evidence to prove that what I'm doing can't be done.  Or, like I
already suggested, go to an electronic publishing show and check out
the Eikonix Designmaster 8000.  There's my proof.

> It doesn't take super-high resolution for a computer to be 'serious'.

Granted.  VAXen are 'serious' computers, but I wouldn't call a VT100
"high res."  On the other hand, we have the Atari ST... :-)

-- 
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Eikonix - A Kodak Co.              //        |   as we know it,
Billerica, MA                  \\ //  Amiga  | 
{encore,adelie}!munsell!klm     \X/   Rules! | And I feel fine...