On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 02:34:31AM +0800, k e c h i e 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. > > Try doin' some gradients in GIMP.
Or some povray pictures. You can detect distinct stripes in 16bpp but none in 24bpp. Everything above 24bpp (32bpp) would be insane. It's nice there is at least one thing that doesn't need to be improved in the computer world :) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
