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From: tow@arisia.Xerox.COM (Rob Tow)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: NeXT wave of computers? or: It's already been done!
Message-ID: <434@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 88 17:24:27 GMT
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Reply-To: tow@arisia.UUCP (Rob Tow)
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In article <1988Oct13.175739.11759@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <969@oswego.Oswego.EDU> knighton@oswego.oswego.edu.Oswego.EDU (Robert Knighton) writes:
>>	...  But I still want COLOR!
>
>Not to be cynical or anything, but what for?
>-- 
>The meek can have the Earth;    |    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>the rest of us have other plans.|uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

1)  Examining photographic quality reproductions of works of art, illustrations
in encyclopedias, etc.

2)  "personal image processing", "digital darkroom".

3)  Superior drawing/painting tools.

4)  Color prepress.

5)  "false color" for scientific/modeling applications.

Note:  there are no convincing  reasons for making the *user interface* color - 
there are actually good reasons based on psychophysics for keeping the user
interface (at least largely) monochrome (greyscale, if not bilevel). And I
don't mean just the "colorblindness" segment of the population, either.
Contrast sensitivity, fatigue effects, and more all vary in interestingly 
nonlinear ways across color.



But there are important reasons for wanting color - and eight bit color is 
not enough.


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Rob Tow
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