Comment Re:Macs for artists (Score 1) 680
"Since your eyes can only detect about 16,000 colors, it's a moot point..."
Did you simply make that up? From http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/events/courses/1996/cmwh/ Stills/basics.html
"The human eye can discern between roughly 2^24 different colors (this number obviously varies greatly from person to person and depends a lot on viewing conditions), so a 24-bit image is needed to represent the full range of colors that we can perceive."
2^24 = 16,777,216 colors, which is just slightly bigger than 16,000.
Did you simply make that up? From http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/events/courses/1996/cmwh
"The human eye can discern between roughly 2^24 different colors (this number obviously varies greatly from person to person and depends a lot on viewing conditions), so a 24-bit image is needed to represent the full range of colors that we can perceive."
2^24 = 16,777,216 colors, which is just slightly bigger than 16,000.
