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I always understood OxFFFFFF to be “give me all you’ve got”. Of course a quasar is going to be able to emit more powerful photons than a 90s CRT. But if said qu
by otikik 4y ago
I always understood OxFFFFFF to be “give me all you’ve got”. Of course a quasar is going to be able to emit more powerful photons than a 90s CRT. But if said quasar had a GUI, 0xFFFFFF would mean “master blaster”, and the same for the old screen. My expectation as a programmer was never that the colors would have any semblance of “realism” or “uniformity”, and to expect variance from machine to machine. Perhaps since I have not involved myself with photography software and kept my budget for displays below the thousands-per-unit this has held true so far
- moring 4y agoWhat I tried to say by that is that "give me all you've got" is the only kind of maximum a screen can do, and a brighter screen (or a quasar) will be brighter. OTOH, "reflect everything" is the absolute maximum for reflection, and no other object will top that.
- yetihehe 4y ago> OTOH, "reflect everything" is the absolute maximum for reflection, and no other object will top that. Maybe some old night scopes with photon amplifiers could be coaxed into making "over 100% reflective" mirrors? A fun idea to reasearch.
- astrange 4y agoAny monitor can simulate HDR ("brighter than 255") images by simply darkening the rest of the picture around them. Also, in TVs it's 16-235 not 0-255. They're not even 8-bit!