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- From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: Re: Photo Scanning
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.043807.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Dec17.161309.10151@ircam.fr> <1992Dec22.004028.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> <1992Dec22.140602.11165@ircam.fr>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:38:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.140602.11165@ircam.fr>, francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec22.004028.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec17.161309.10151@ircam.fr>, francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) writes:
- ...
- > Why 300dpi? Everything I've read says that the eye, in normal
- > conditions 29.7 cm from a 21x21cm square (the correct distance for
- > looking at photographs, w.r.t. the image size for least optical
- > distortion), can't resolve more than 300dpi @ 256 grey levels per
- > pixel of the image. I think it has to do with the angle subtended by
- > the image on the retina, and the density of receptors. Color is
- > similar in treatment, 300dpi per color layer, but this model doesn't
- > account for discrepancies in color sensitivity (green, vs. red).
- >
-
- I've seen this bull too. Need I say more? The problem is that a simplistic
- 'resolution required' test fails in many subtle important cases, where the
- resolution errors compound in horrid ways. That is why good typesetters run
- ~7k dots per inch or more.
-
- Knuth, in one of the TeX/Metafont books/srticle gives a sobering example of
- round-off error in the 13 odd decimal place. Can't find the ref at the mo...
- In the article on device drivers I think.
-
- The Kodak leaflets on screening have a lot of good stuff on this ( or at least
- they used to, I haven't looked at onne for 20 odd years... )
-
- ~Paul
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