Re: 24-bit-per-pixel limit to Gdk RGB ?
- From: individual <individual mi cl>
- To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: 24-bit-per-pixel limit to Gdk RGB ?
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:21:35 -0300
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 05:55 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
Eek.... I was hoping for greater bit depth, but I'm getting more and
more convinced that it's pointless to try and render a 48 bpp image at
48 bpp screen depth when screens are at most 24bpp deep.
It's not pointless. You won't lose much quality. Consider: on a
1024*768 monitor
you can only display 786432 different colors (if every pixel has a
different
color, which is quite rare, unless you've got some very psychedelic
images)
To be able to display all the colors in an 24bpp gamut, you'll need
16777216
((2^8)^3) pixels, which is something like 4729*3547 in traditional 4:3
ratio. If
you come across a cheap display that can handle this, let me know. :-)
How enlightening. Thank you for explaining it in those terms. Really!
Paul
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