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From: waynet@mongo.uucp (Wayne Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: grey scale --> HAM picture
Message-ID: <33616@mongo.uucp>
Date: 3 Feb 89 16:23:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: dale@boing.UUCP's message of 1 Feb 89 02:14:12 GMT

In article <613@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:

   Not completely true, by using the mono output of the 500 or the 2000 you
   can get closer to few thousand shades of grey. The rgb values are weighted
   differently to produce a single luminance value. It is probably close
   to .587g .299g and .11b or something like that.
   -- 
   Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
   {uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale

Does anyone have have the actual weighting values?

Wayne