richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (06/27/88)
In article <2507@amiga.UUCP> jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes: > >)Did that make sense? Has anyone ever thought of this before? It doesn't >)sound very hard to me. Does everyone *really* use white on blue? > >Another big advantage of dark on light, is that the dark horizontal >inter-line gaps only dice up light things. So rather than having >striated characters that look like something from CGA, you get a >horizontal texture to your background and full characters: looks real >sharp. I remember reading some SIGGRAPH paper on colour perception, and there was an interesting remark made by one of them Xerox PARC types to the effect that the reason dark letters on light backgrounds was preferable (ie. induced less eyestrain) was that when some light text on a dark background scrolls, the persistence of the phosphour guarentees that a smeary residual image exists for a small peroid of time and (somehow) casues eyestrain. But with dark letters on a light background, when you scroll text, *poof* there is no smearing because the light background immediately erases the ``old'' dark letters. I use a tan background, with a dark gray/light black text colour. Since there is less contrast between these two colours then any other (readable) color pair I've found, flicker, in interlace mode (which I use almost exclusivly) is negligable. Here are my pref colours: Colour 0: 13, 12, 9 Tan Colour 1: 5, 5, 5 Dark grey Colour 2: 15, 15, 1 Yellow Colour 3: 15, 11, 0 Orange (P.S. to whoever maintains the "preferences" programme - how about putting in the numeric values of the RGB selections - it's a pain to count click to set/read specific RGB values) I have a Sony, if that makes any difference. Also of note, it that same group of Xerox weenies that concluded that dark on light wa the way to go also concluded that 2 was the optimal number of mouse buttons. Oh well, guess Apple didn't steal everything :-) -- If you were to flatten out Wales, it would be bigger than England. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard
dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) (07/01/88)
In article <4655@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > I use a tan background, with a dark gray/light black text colour. > Since there is less contrast between these two colours then > any other (readable) color pair I've found, flicker, in interlace > mode (which I use almost exclusivly) is negligable. One of the best things I've ever purchased for my Amiga cost me $20.00. It's an anti-glare/anti-flicker screen that looks like the smoked plexiglass on motorcycle helmet shields. I can't remember the name although I've seen it advertised in Amazing Computing. Not only does it reduce glare (and DRASTICALLY) reduce flicker, but it makes the colors on my old 1080 look richer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ "Masquerading as a Man with a Reason, ~ ~ my Charade is the Event of the Season..." ~ ~ ~ ~ WayWard Son, ~ ~ Kansas ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- *********************************************************** * David Geary, Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA * * I disclaim all disclaimers.... * ***********************************************************
thad@cup.portal.com (07/01/88)
Good luck. Two years ago I suggested displaying the numeric values of the Preferences color sliders flanking the sliders, That suggestion was filed on Amiga Development Request form and I suspect it was filed and forgotten. The bugs I reported (during 1.2 alpha, beta and gamma testing) were fixed! You can use the PopColours program to view the screens' color values in the same manner as my original suggestion and your present musing. PopColours is available on Fish Disk # 43 (with source).