The New York Times has long been a leader in delivering news in the form of pigmented petroleum products arranged over processed dead trees. About 10 years ago, they realized that their primary delivery system would someday become obsolete. They have experimented ever since with replacements. First they had a free website. Then they had… [Read More]
Virtualization
For a dozen years, I’ve owned an Imacon Flextight scanner. It started life as a Precision II, and I bought the Imacon kit that supposedly upgraded it to a Precision III. The kit consisted of a firmware upgrade, a third-party FireWire to SCSI converter, and a stick-on rubber thingy with a “III” on it to… [Read More]
Win 7 Aero & 30 bit color
This morning I noticed that, when I hovered my mouse pointer over items in the Taskbar, I didn’t get the usual miniature preview windows. Instead I got a set of small dark blue windows with the names of the documents that were open by the indicated application. I’d never seen anything like that before. Then… [Read More]
The monitor brightness dilemma solved
In my last post, I was bemoaning the choice between setting your monitor to a high brightness level so that it’s comfortable for most things and setting it to a lower level to get more accurate soft proofing. It turns out that with the NEC PA series monitors you can have your cake and eat… [Read More]
30 bit color
In the early nineties, while I was attending SPIE, SIGGRAPH, and Society for Information Display conferences, I heard a psychologist give a presentation on display bit depth. He claimed that, under the right conditions, humans could distinguish about 400 shades of gray, and that therefore 8 bits of grayscale resolution, which only allows 255 or… [Read More]
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