2026-06-07 17:33 UTC
@PhilSalkie@mindly.social @eliocamp@mastodon.social @Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz rgb565 is a somewhat common color mode for this reason - we see green with the most detail, so when you're looking to reduce bits per pixel it makes sense to cut the other two slightly
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@PhilSalkie@mindly.social 2026-06-07 19:36
@groxx@hachyderm.io @eliocamp@mastodon.social @Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz Makes sense, there are a number of monochrome photosensors designed to work near the center of the green visual peak as well. What I found interesting was not just being able to decrease the number of bits of blue intensity for each pixel, but making the pixel count so much less for blue. We've reached a point in tech where speaking about "efficiency" marks you as being from a bygone age - but this seems like it could be a neat way to pack more images into fewer bytes.