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On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 00:10:10 +0100, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <ocu589$ade$1@dont-email.me>, Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> > wrote: > >> >> >> >> So you believe there are colours you can see in reality that are never >> >> shown on your screen? >> > >> > it's physically impossible for a screen to display all the colours a >> > human can see, at least with today's technology. maybe at some point in >> > the future, but that day is not now. >> >> A human can see 10 million colours. > > depends on how it's counted, and that's not the issue anyway. > >> An 8-bit RGB display can generate 16.77 million colours. > > no it definitely can't. > > the colours that can be displayed depends on the colour gamut of the > display. a wide gamut display can display noticeably more colours than > a standard srgb display. > > also, if your images are 8 bpc (24 bpp), then you definitely aren't > getting the widest gamut possible. the better displays use 12 bit luts > with 16 bpc (48 bpp) images. > > garbage in/garbage out. > >> I would think it can display more colours than a person can see, though you >> wouldn't see them. :) > > you would think wrong. > > the fact is that humans can see a *lot* more colours than can be > displayed or printed. > > <http://www.sant-media.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/cie.jpg> > > display and printer gamuts intersect, which means displays can show > some colours that can't be printed and printers can print some colours > that can't be displayed. both are smaller than what humans can see. 8 bits per colour means 16 million colours, end of story. -- Climate change will exist so long as there's money to be made from it.
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