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Neat app idea, however two nitpicks: 1.) Screenshots? This one seems obvious. 2.) Patent Pending? Seriously? The developer certainly is not the first to com
by tsally 18y ago
Neat app idea, however two nitpicks:
1.) Screenshots? This one seems obvious.
2.) Patent Pending? Seriously? The developer certainly is not the first to come up with this idea. The idea that this "technology" needs to be licensed from them is just silly.
- ajkirwin 18y agoI had to agree with you on the patent pending statement and made a comment to that effect. I hate seeing things like this when it comes to software. Give it another ten years and I'm not going to be able to code a damn thing without violating a stack of patents.
- wheels 18y agoGive it another ten years [...] Uhm, try, "for at least ten years already".
- pmjordan 18y agoScreenshots of this are tricky unless you literally mean "photographs of the monitor", as I suspect the way this is done is by modifying the gamma tables in the graphics card. This gets applied post-framebuffer in the RAMDAC (for VGA) or in the TMDS frame assembly stage (for DVI/HDMI/laptop panels). In other words, the framebuffer, which is what you're normally reading for a screenshot, always contains the same data, it just gets tinted as it is sent to the screen. Graphics card drivers often come with UI to modify this rendering stage, and the windowing systems all come with APIs for manipulating it from user space. Of course, you could always take the framebuffer and aproximate the transformation in software and dump the result to file.