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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."
The magic recipe will eventually be hit upon - monitors and video screens of very high quality will be produced cheaply, and people will begin putting them everywhere.
There are many uses for ubiquitous screen technology. But the more video we see and watch during a day the closer we get to a certain question. Will the video representation of reality become more comfortable for people than the real thing?
Many people already see more TV than they do real world outdoor imagery during a day. What happens when we all do? At least one issue to consider is that the cultural norms for the appearance of a healthy, sexually appealing human being will have even more to do with TV than they do today.
Goat sex free since 2001
Won't this make fonts look even more fuzzy and have more "jaggies"? Why aren't there any 3072x2304 monochrome laptops available? Doesn't anyone else think it's a good goal to have dynamic paper-quality images rather than pixels we are able to casually count?
In the printing industry there has been a big trumpetting of a new dot layout
called Hexachrome. This takes the concept of the human eye's propensity
for blurring colors together and adjusts the traditional 3 dot 3 color priniting
layout to 6 dots with a red dot, a blue dot, and 4 different types of yellow/green.
Personally, this looks like a migration from paper to the computer
industry of this same technique which affords more vibrant colors and
cleaner details.
--Ks9
Okay, I agree that this technology is cool, but I think I would still opt for a traditional LCD display. I'm red-green colorblind, so I am most sensitive to blue, rather than red or green as this display assumes.
I'm surprised that nobody else has posted about colorblindness yet-- I was under the impression that more of us engineering types were affected!
we were taught in Colour Theory that the human eye has inferior spatial resolution in blue, but superior ability to discern brightness levels. We conducted several density grading experiments which seemed to prove this theory empirically. I think the confusion here is that the eye is most sensitive to green at the lower limits of perception - presumably because this ability might aid sight in poor light out in the bush. But that's just a guess.
That was classic intercourse!
I note the date on the ClairVoyante web page is 1999. They've had this for a while, and still nothing's coming of it....