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

Re:It is not Blue

[Anonymous Coward]

True, and if anyone on slashdot actually reads the articles it's obvious from the layout of their matrix that blue indeed has the lowest priority in their product.

Re:Doh! What about us colorblind folks?

[osu-neko]

Are you sure about that? I doubt very much you see red or green at a lower resolution than blue. This display should look crisper to you than a traditional LCD display, even if you can't tell the red pixels from the green pixels.

I was under the impression that more of us engineering types were affected!

Than the general populace, to a statistically significant degree? I find this highly unlikely.

Re:similar to a recent dead-tree concept

[FFFish]

In the print industry, Hexachrome is indeed new and revolutionary.

This is, after all, an industry that was invented in the 15th century, and didn't substantially change until the 19th century, when roll paper and continuous-run presses were finally invented. That's 400 years without earth-shaking technological revolution.

It was almost a hundred more years until moveable type was invented, and nearly fifty more before colour offset printing became common.

A printing technology like Hexachrome is, indeed, very new, and still struggling to gain acceptance -- it's a radical idea!