SSteinberg.SoftArts@MIT-MULTICS@sri-unix (07/26/82)
Local: works at rutgers Original-date: 25 JUL 1982 13:30:36 Via: Rutgers.ArpaNet; 25 Jul 82 18:19-PDT Andrew Lippman's doctoral (or was it his masters) thesis was on resolution and image processing and he did a lot of stuff on drawing lines and characters using n bits per point. From what he gathered, having more than one gray level (in B+W:letters+lines) doesn't buy you much. Also, the actual gray level made the screen look different but didn't do too much to what could be read. Having an intermediate gray level makes a lot of difference on poorly converged color monitors.