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

What about text?

[michaelmalak]

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?

similar to a recent dead-tree concept

[invictus]

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.

Doh! What about us colorblind folks?

[cmckay]

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!

I wouldn't hold my breath

[qanuta]

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....