Rearranging Pixels For Performance

tepes writes "From bottomquark, A new method of sub-pixel rendering could make monitors cheaper to produce. ClairVoyante Laboratories developed the PenTile Matrix, which uses five sub-pixels instead of the typical three, to take advantage of the fact that the human eye is more sensitive to blue colors."

Comments

Great

[mESSDan]

I can see this is probably going to be like mp3 compression, where people often say "I can tell the difference between that and the original". So, someone will have to develop something silly like "monitor drivers with more blue!"

Re:It is not Blue

[morcheeba]

Check out the pretty graphs here and here. Both show that red and green sensitivities are similar and different from blue. The two graphs seem to contradict each other - the first has blue the lowest, and the second has blue the highest, but they are graphing two things: the first shows sensitivity (excitability per # of photons) and the second shows the reciprical (# of photons to excite).

And a nice Spinal Tap reference as well

[taliver]

For example, in the case of a 15' 1600 x 1200 UXGA panel

Good God man! This would look great behind a 12" stonehenge...