GhostDoggy, the human eye may not be able to 'see' 36 bit color, but the human brain can. The brain composites the 'video stream' from our eye to enhance our vision. This is why when you stare at one spot for a while, things start to become desaturated and blurry, because our brain is not getting its usual amount of information to composite with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye
Also, though our brains may not be able to detect all color changes in 36bit color, we will certainly notice the increased monochromatic color range. With 36 bit color, we get 4096 levels of gray, or monochromatic color, as opposed to 256 levels with 24 bit color. Try looking at a fullscreen black to white gradient, I'll bet if you look closely you can see some banding.
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Tim @ Jun 16th 2006 9:42AM
GhostDoggy, the human eye may not be able to 'see' 36 bit color, but the human brain can. The brain composites the 'video stream' from our eye to enhance our vision. This is why when you stare at one spot for a while, things start to become desaturated and blurry, because our brain is not getting its usual amount of information to composite with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye
Also, though our brains may not be able to detect all color changes in 36bit color, we will certainly notice the increased monochromatic color range. With 36 bit color, we get 4096 levels of gray, or monochromatic color, as opposed to 256 levels with 24 bit color. Try looking at a fullscreen black to white gradient, I'll bet if you look closely you can see some banding.