Super-high color depth

gph-gw · 2001-06-28T10:34:42

I can imagine 32 bit color will be around for a while. But at some point, probably on high-end workstations first, there''s got to be some improvement. I pluged the numbers in my calc for 64 bits, and came up with over 281 trillion colors at 16.16.16.16 and over 18 million trillion colors at 21.22.21. Are there any plans by any of the vid card makers, or are there no plans whatever?

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Started by gph-gw June 21, 2001 12:57 AM

19 comments, last by gph-gw 22 years, 10 months ago

python_regious

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June 28, 2001 10:31 AM

quote:Original post by Chronoslade
The human eye can only see aprox. 32 million colors so whats the point for more.

The problem comes with rounding errors, and banding when using large amounts of one colour. Read the replies above and carmacks finger.

EDIT: sorry about the triple post everyone...

Edited by - python_regious on June 28, 2001 11:34:41 AM

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