From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: ALLEGRO - 256 shades of grey?? How?
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 08:50:15 +0100
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Sean Gilley writes:
> Most peaple can't see more than 10 shades of grey.
> No human can see more than 20 shades of grey.

Maybe that is true if you show them two different colors in different
places, and ask which is lighter. But if you draw a gradient from one
side of the screen to the other, I think you will find the banding is
_very_ obvious with only 20 shades!

> on a related note. we humans can only see about
> 60,000 distinct colors/shades.

Flamebait :-) This topic gets hammered to death so much over in
rec.games.programmer, nobody seems able to agree on the truth. Please
lets not get it started over here as well!


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