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Continuing our long, invisible thread…

2^6 = 64, but I have red, green, and blue pixels, so times three, but subtract two because all the blacks are the same.

I suppose I'll need to write a small article on this with some pictures. In the process of researching this I was impressed with how useless macrophotography of a screen was. Small changes that are obvious to the human at a distance are invisible when looking at the individual r,g,b elements up close.

I'm away from my camera that can output RAW data, maybe with it and some numerical image analysis I can tell if there is multipixel dithering going on, but my human eye isn't going to tell, even from magnified pictures.



There's a much easier way to demonstrate multipixel dithering: create a 50% gray bitmap (the scrollbar on an xterm works fine for this) and drag it around on screen. If you see weird color effects, there's multipixel dithering happening.




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