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> In a sense our eyes experience contrast on a sliding scale There's a whole visual center to check the amount of incoming light and adjust your pupils for you
by themafia 4mo ago
> In a sense our eyes experience contrast on a sliding scale
There's a whole visual center to check the amount of incoming light and adjust your pupils for you. It's intentionally reactive.
> and there is no absolute zero in the system.
There maybe is. I think we call that "blind."
> broadcast systems historically used 16-235 as their luminance range for SDR
Mostly because it was a fully analog system and these all translate down to signal voltage. Jokingly NTSC used to be referred to as "Never Twice the Same Color" due to being a compromise bolted onto the side of an already compromised system.
- a_conservative 4mo ago>> and there is no absolute zero in the system. > There maybe is. I think we call that "blind." If you go looking into that, you'll see that the reality is far far more complex [0] "The number of people with no light perception is unknown, but it is estimated to be less than 10 percent of totally blind individuals." [0] https://chicagolighthouse.org/sandys-view/what-blind-people-see/ https://chicagolighthouse.org/sandys-view/what-blind-people-...