On July 16, 2014 6:20:35 PM CEST, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: >Quoth Markus Teich: >> 8bit per component are sufficient for the human eye. This leads to 2 >^ (3*8) = >> 16.777.216 colors. Can you differentiate any pair of them I would >show you? > >For some domains it's useful to preserve more detail than the eye >can differentiate, so that different image enhancement or >modification processes can work better. Like with audio; 44kHz is >about the limit of human differentiation, but 96 / 128kHz is better >for working with it, say for remixing.
I think 8bit channels are fine, yet even though Markus doesn't believe it he can see way more than 16 million colors.
