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Mostly unrelated and probably off-topic, but cool photos:

Enlarged view of the pixels on a cellphone display

Enlarged view of white pixels on a standard LCD monitor

(Busted camera, but it takes cool close-ups. Anything too big to be measured in several mm is too big to be photographed by it...)

Mostly unrelated and probably off-topic, but cool photos:

Enlarged view of the pixels on a cellphone display

Enlarged view of white pixels on a standard LCD monitor

(Busted camera, but it takes cool close-ups. Anything too big to be measured in several mm is too big to be photographed by it...)

I actually went and dug up that program again... from the date modified on the source code, it looks like I did it in late 2006.

This is a screenshot. NOTE: THAT IS 16 COLOURS. I customized the palette and simulated "true" colour using 5 shades each of red, green, and blue, plus black (16 colours total). Then I plotted triads of adjacent pixels to approximate the desired hue. I was pretty pleased with it. :D

Here is a screenshot from another program I wrote using the exact same plot routine. Again, 16 colours. (The program displays BMP images. The code is god-awful ugly, though... large segments with line numbers interspersed between blocks of code added later without. GW-BASIC, which it was originally written in, required line numbers, but the compiler I later transitioned to didn't.)

I actually went and dug up that program again... from the date modified on the source code, it looks like I did it in late 2006.

This is a screenshot. NOTE: THAT IS 16 COLOURS. I customized the palette and simulated "true" colour using 5 shades each of red, green, and blue, plus black (16 colours total). Then I plotted triads of adjacent pixels to approximate the desired hue. I was pretty pleased with it. :D

Here is a screenshot from another program I wrote using the exact same plot routine. Again, 16 colours. (The program displays BMP images. The code is god-awful ugly, though... large segments with line numbers interspersed between blocks of code added later without. GW-BASIC, which it was originally written in, required line numbers, but the compiler I later transitioned to didn't.)

Sigh...

Yeah, coding tan2 was a bitch. I wish the language I was using had just included the command natively.

It was for this, BTW: [1 | 2 | 3 ]

Sigh...

Yeah, coding tan2 was a bitch. I wish the language I was using had just included the command natively.

It was for this, BTW: [1 | 2 | 3 ]

Sigh...

Yeah, coding tan2 was a bitch. I wish the language I was using had just included the command natively.

It was for this, BTW: [1 | 2 | 3 ]