Hi, Tom Barry wrote: > And the perceived sharpness is considered to be the square of the > area under this curve. According to Parsival's theorem this is equal to the area under the square of the impulse response, so it must translate more or less to the brightness of thin lines. How well you can see thin lines. If you change a thin bright line into a wider dim line, it still remains visible. That is incidentally also how you can see objects that are smaller than 1 arc minute (e.g. stars !), because they still generate more (or less) light than their environment. Greetings, -- Jeroen +-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | From: Jeroen H. Stessen | E-mail: Jeroen.Stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx | | Building: SFJ-5.22 Eindhoven | Deptmt.: Philips Applied Technologies | | Phone: ++31.40.2732739 | Visiting & mail address: Glaslaan 2 | | Mobile: ++31.6.44680021 | NL 5616 LW Eindhoven, the Netherlands | | Pager: ++31.6.65133818 | Website: http://www.apptech.philips.com/ | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.