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authorSøren Sandmann Pedersen <ssp@redhat.com>2013-08-04 20:20:12 -0400
committerSøren Sandmann Pedersen <ssp@redhat.com>2013-08-04 20:20:12 -0400
commit43b17cdce558065738061bc1f4eeac3a9d97ac49 (patch)
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parent6c1cb897329d9c8a988448c16dbbc2a4839aa8f3 (diff)
More about gammma and dithering
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@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ Details:
* onto F at position a and b respectively.
*/
-
Gamma and dithering:
An observation is that dithering a gradient down to 121 makes the
@@ -119,8 +118,9 @@ proves two things:
If you scale the image down in a gamma-aware way, the wrong colors
stay wrong, which shows that gamma-aware downscaling is better
capturing human vision, at least in the case of lots of high-frequency
-information.
-
+information. It suggests that converting to linear RGB before applying
+the filter is a better model of human vision. Which makes sense if the
+filter is mainly coming from the cornea and the lens.
Old algorithm: