{"id":1337,"date":"2010-03-31T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T08:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2013-07-17T22:46:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T05:46:30","slug":"rgby-oh-my-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"RGBY – Oh, My! Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAfter all these years using and programming computers with the RGB color scheme, the geniuses at Sharp toss in another color. What will the computing world do?
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\nHere is the Sharp commercial starring George Takei, just in case you haven’t yet seen it:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4hSnAxvRdmY<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, my! Indeed!<\/p>\n

It states the obvious quite well in the commercial: “You have to see it to see it.” How can you appreciate an RGBY monitor when all you have to look at is an RGB monitor?<\/p>\n

Well, naturally, the yellow goes nowhere. In fact, while the monitor\/TV might be a brilliant invention and bring visual imagery to a new level, what’s the point if nothing you have takes advantage of that extra Y pixel?<\/p>\n

To get the most from an RGBY monitor wouldn’t you need an RGBY source? That is, a digital camera or software that generates something for the Y pixel to do.<\/p>\n

Right now, everything in computer graphics deals with RGB. Last Monday I wrote about how HTML is coded to handle the three pixel values, red, green, and blue. So if you send the HTML code #FFFF00<\/code> to a monitor you get a yellow something. And you’ll get the same yellow something on an RGBY monitor even though that Y pixel stays dark.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Sharp Quattron monitor may interpolate a yellow signal and fire up that actual yellow pixel. That would look better to the human eye than seeing the red and green pixels glowing, which also looks yellow but might not be as hot and sweet as a yellow pixel glowing yellow. Who knows?<\/p>\n

You have to see it to see it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n

Then again, the computer hardware world may go nuts and in 5 or 7 years we may see nothing but RGBY monitors out there.<\/p>\n

Call them rugby<\/em> monitors.<\/p>\n

If so, then HTML coders and computer programmers will have to put up with a new color coding scheme. Instead of #FFFF00<\/code> to get yellow you’ll be writing #000000FF<\/code> to get yellow.<\/p>\n

Or write #FFFF00FF<\/code> to get super yellow<\/em>!<\/p>\n

By the way, adding 256 more values for the various shades of yellow on an RGBY monitor means that the monitors will be capable of producing over four billion<\/em> individual colors.<\/p>\n

Until then, I’m eager to see the Sharp Quattron in action. Then I’ll just have to wait until the update the graphics programming technology to throw some more yellow into the mix. Should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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