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Not really, I can read a book using the light of my phone displaying a black screen at minimum brightness. Now OLED _might_ be able to fix things, but manufact
by contravariant 6y ago
Not really, I can read a book using the light of my phone displaying a black screen at minimum brightness.
Now OLED _might_ be able to fix things, but manufacturers don't provide low brightness settings for most screens at the moment (even though anything with a LED backlight could have almost arbitrarily low brightness), so I'm not particularly optimistic.
The example from that one guy that made a fake painting by matching light levels to a white wall was pretty convincing though, so I think it can be done it just isn't for some reason.
- gnicholas 6y agoFYI on iOS you can use the accessibility settings (via the zoom filter, with zoom turned off and darkness turned to max) to lower the brightness beyond the normal limit. I have this setting tied to triple-clicking the sleep button, so I can activate it easily in the morning or late at night.
- gazzini 6y agoThank you so much for this comment. I can’t believe I didn’t know this, I’ve been inverting my colors & sometimes wearing cheap, non-polarized sunglasses at night — no more! I had to fiddle with the settings quite a bit to get a 1x zoom w/ the filter, though.
- gnicholas 6y agoThis is a very little-known feature. I work in accessibility and have had an iPhone since day 1. But the only reason I know about this very well-hidden trick is that an Apple employee told me!
- johnsoft 6y ago>that one guy that made a fake painting by matching light levels to a white wall Do you happen to have a link to this? I remember reading the original post years ago, but I didn't save it and could never find it again.
- contravariant 6y agoI had to search for a bit but I managed to find it: https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels It's been referenced on HN a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.claybavor.com%2F&sort=byPopularity&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- johnsoft 6y agoThat's the one, thanks!