Re: Patch for sane.tex (image polarity)

From: Henning Meier-Geinitz (hmg-ml@gmx.de)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 08:47:34 PDT

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    Hi,

    On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:56:25PM -0700, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
    > This is potentially very confusing. Depending on whether you're
    > dealing with a subtractive or additive color synthesis, "more color"
    > could mean darker or brighter, respectively. I no expert in color
    > theory,

    Same here ...

    > but perhaps "larger values correspond to more luminous
    > (``brighter'') pixels" would be more accurate and but still clear?

    That's ok for me. So this would be:

    For 1-bit depths, a value of 0 means white and 1 means black. For all
    other bit depths, larger values correspond to more luminous (``brighter'')
    pixels.

    If nobody objects, I will add this paragraph to sane.tex.

    Bye,
      Henning

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