P3D Re: No more two-color nonsense

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/20/98, OLE HANSEN wrote:
>Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ....the text repeatedly notes the tonal problems associated with
>> duotones. Audiences of the time also saw the difference.....

>It is not posibble to get a true color image with the technology of
>today - what you get is an image resembling reality to some degree.
>The 3 filter technique is more accurate than the 2 filter technique.

This is a hair that has been split before.

Fact is, while a machine knows there are colors missing from the 3-color
spectrum, few people can see it.  On the other hand, the product of two
colors is always missing a huge part of the spectrum that a child can see
from a distance.

Tom



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