- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:24:44 -0800
- To: <www-html@w3.org>, "Walter Ian Kaye" <walter@natural-innovations.com>
Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > MacOS has used 48-bit color for many years, and gets "downgraded" > for use with 24-bit HTML values. There are visible color variations that 24-bit is too coarse to resolve; shadow detail is lost and a discerning eye can see 'stepping' in subtle gradients. > 6%? 101/256 = 39.45% on my calculator. Did you use the Pentium 'fdiv'? ;-) Nope. 101^3 = 1030301 colors. 256^3 = 1677216 colors. 1030301/1677216 = approx. 0.06141. > I, for one, cannot visually discern 0-100% from 0-255 in rendered colors, I can see a very distinct difference between some color pairs with only 1% variation in one color channel. Admittedly not enough to worry about for WWW work, and it's a hell of lot better than NetSnake's 20% increments. But I still think it's silly to limit resolution to avoid thinking in non-decimal increments. David Perrell
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