Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG > > files, viewed with xv. > > 24 color JPEG's or 24 _bit_ color JPEG's? You can get 2^24 colors with 24 > bit color. > > > Can anybody explain this? I would have thought that 65K colours would > > _not_ look as good as 16M! > > 16M? That's ram, not sure what the conversion is to the number of colors, > but that depends on your resolution. > > Sounds like you may be getting your units messed up.
No, just bad wording when trying to be brief. :-( I'm refering to 16 bit colour being 2^16=65536 colours and 2^24=16777216 colours. And I meant to type 24_bit_ colour JPEG. The other replies seem to say that it's no suprise that the eye doesn't see the difference. I'll try the gimp gradients; that sounds like an interesting test. -- ...RickM...
