FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: The Size of Colour Spaces

[François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>]

Selon Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Something to bear in mind when implementing the interface kit; So you can
> save
> work later.
> 
> At work the discussion came to the size of colour spaces. Some devices,
> digital
> camera, have much larger colour spaces than the 12 million (24bit) colour
> spaces supported by BeOS. Windows Longorn will be a 128 bit colour space, 32
> bits a channel. Then, probablely Mac & Linux will support this as well. So
> we
> could have to support 128 bit colours.
> 
> Some new high defenition displays are being release, with smaller pixels.
> Some
> larger displays are also being released. As such we may need to look at
> alternative layout models than pixels, and more pixels.
> 
Well, you know the human eye can't even distinguish the 16M colors we use 
in 24 bit modes anyway... The only use for 128 bits modes would be for 
doing composition with alpha and stuff internally.

François.