I've read from several different sources that our color perception can be
trained and that some artists can perceived 10 million different colors. So
16 million colors does not *far* exceed our capabilities.
Frank Paris
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:59 AM
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> Subject: RE: filmscanners: Fw: Color Profiles for Scanners
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> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:02:16 -0800 shAf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > How can you say you "see" 0,0,255 when 0,0,254 is the same color??
> > ... I doubt you can start "seeing" any difference between these "pure"
> > blues until 0,0,240 ... they are all the same ... especially in
> > monitor space ... put up a gradient and prove it to yourself. Even
> > without regard to monitor gamut, 0-0-255 falls outside the L*a*b gamut
> > ... which is the only color definition defined to come even close to
> > physical reality.
>
> I think you are only illustrating that 16.4m colours far exceeds
> the discrimination of
> human vision, and that 8 bits should be enough for anything we
> intend looking at. You
> can, though, often see differences of ~3-5L if there is a
> suitable reference, though
> it depends on the colour and luminance.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony Sleep
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