Ray Skoog wrote:
 :: Pranay Kumar wrote:
 :: 
 :: >Does the driver support this yet? I mean how difficult will it be to
 :: >display a buffer that has 10 bit data on a window.
 :: >
 :: >- Pranay
 :: >
 :: >  
 :: >
 :: You do realize that potentially no monitor, and certainly no LCD screen, 
 :: can output this level of color, right?  (Perhaps they dither it down?) 
 ::  10 bits per channel is primarily useful for internal calculations, as 
 :: far as I know.
 :: 
 :: So you'd better start your investigation with: "can I even see 10 bits 
 :: per channel?" rather than "how?".
 :: 
 ::                                     -ray skoog


As I wrote yesterday (to Mark), you most certainly _can_ see the
difference between 8 and 10 bits in certain classes of image.  I'm not
talking dynamic range, I'm talking contouring.  I admit that it is
next-to-impossible to see problems in most "natural imagery" but this is
certainly not the case with synthetic images, nor is it the case
with, all natural scenes.

As for "no LCD screen can output this level of colour", this is also
not correct, though you won't be able to buy such a Flat Panel at
Best Buy  or Circuit City (yet).

See, for example,

http://www.presentationmaster.com/2002/04_apr/news/cw_sharp_lcdmill.htm

                                  Dean S. Messing
                                  Center for Displayed Appearance
                                  Information Systems Technologies Laboratory
                                  Sharp Laboratories of America
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