meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen) (02/18/90)
In article <10935@zodiac.ADS.COM> anders@penguin (Anders Wallgren) writes: >In article <1990Feb16.231217.27252@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>, kanefsky@umn-cs (Steve Kanefsky) writes: >>BTW, I wonder why Apple downplays their monitors by calling them >>"monochrome" when they're all capable of at least 16 shades of grey >>and the Hi-res "monochrome" monitor can display 256 shades of grey >>with Apple's card. ... >Mono-chrome: (1) n. [monochroma, fr. L, fem. of monochromos of one color] > 1. a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue > (2) adj. > 1. of, relating to, or made with a single color or > hue. > 2. characterized by the reproduction of visual images > in tones of gray <monochrome television> The artist and pysicist in me has to be nitpicky here. Actually, monochrome would be one color or perhaps different shades of that one color. The color is at a particular wavelength. Greys, as an artist knows, are not color. They are nuetrals. The variation of greys are a result of different intensities. In this respect, the Apple Monochrome monitors aren't even monochromatic. They're achromatic. Then again, if you consider white light as all colors, the monitor has all colors, but can't seperate them. Anyway, I agree with the orignal post that Apple should call them greyscale. That's what I tell friends mine is. Paul Eric Menchen meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu
fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) (03/06/90)
In article <20532@netnews.upenn.edu>, meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen) writes: > >In article <1990Feb16.231217.27252@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>, kanefsky@umn-cs (Steve Kanefsky) writes: > >>BTW, I wonder why Apple downplays their monitors by calling them > >>"monochrome" when they're all capable of at least 16 shades of grey > > The artist and pysicist in me has to be nitpicky here. Actually, > monochrome would be one color or perhaps different shades of that one > color. The color is at a particular wavelength. Greys, as an artist > knows, are not color. They are nuetrals. The variation of greys are > a result of different intensities. In this respect, the Apple > Monochrome monitors aren't even monochromatic. They're achromatic. The photographer/nit-picker part of me (I may be schizophrenic, but I'll always have each other?) just tripped over "achromatic". "No color" (achromatic) implies a dead screen. Make that panchromatic. Varying the intensity then gives you shades of gray. ------------ "...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." Plato, _Phaedrus_