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That was disappointing. I expected from the title that it would cover modern use cases. When's the last time you needed to use a web-safe palette? It's still
by mark-r 11mo ago
That was disappointing. I expected from the title that it would cover modern use cases. When's the last time you needed to use a web-safe palette?
It's still useful if you're trying to display a 10-bit-per-channel image on an 8-bit-per-channel display, but the gain isn't nearly as dramatic. And the need doesn't come up very often.
- corysama 11mo agoIt’s useful all 8-bit scenarios when you have overlapping transparency. Especially with smooth, dark images. https://loopit.dk/rendering_inside.pdf https://loopit.dk/rendering_inside.pdf The new Silksong apparently shipped with really bad banding that could have benefited from the techniques in that doc.
- magicalhippo 11mo agoInside was pretty darn rad, very nice breakdown. They link to the following thesis: Optimal Dither and Noise Shaping in Image Processing http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3867 http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3867