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> On which image does the gradation appear more even? It’s the second one! I felt the first one looked more even. On the first I could tell the difference betw
by dheera 4mo ago
> On which image does the gradation appear more even? It’s the second one!
I felt the first one looked more even. On the first I could tell the difference between every two adjacent bars. On the second one I couldn't tell any difference between the first 4-5 bars.
- tobr 4mo agoProbably because it’s displayed on a white background. A gray or black background would have shown the difference more clearly.
- account42 4mo agoNo it's because #000 isn't actually black on a physical monitor, especially a backlit one so you loose contrast which affects the lower end of the range more than it does the brighter colors.
- tobr 4mo agoI disagree. If the monitor is mostly black (as close as it can be reproduced), shades of near-black gray are easy to distinguish, while shades of near-white gray blend together.
- nitwit005 4mo agoI felt the same, and I saw multiple people did back in 2016 as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12554887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12554887 Edit: Looking at the raw pixel data, the cells seem to be (0, 0, 0), (0, 0, 0), (1, 1, 1), (8, 8, 8), so there is indeed no practical difference between the first three.