> 
>   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
> 

To my knowledge, a monitor is an analogous device, that can potetially
display _any number_  of intermediate shades of each primary colour.

Isn't the RAMDAC (Digital-Analog Converter) the chip, that converts a
digital value (i.e. a 10bit color value) into a voltage that ultimatly
drives the intensity of each of the monitor's color guns? I cannot see a
reason, why a color gun wouldn't respond to any intermediate voltage
level. If it weren't driven by a RAMDAC of inherently limited resolution
but a power supply capable of outputting a continuous voltage range...

The delimiting factor, I agree, would be the human eye! I wonder, if it
is capable of distinguishing between 1024 shades of a primary color?

Christoph Koulen


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