> In my mind, it's much like the color/resolution debate for video cards.  Sure,
> you *could* have 72 bits per pixel, but the human eye really can't distenguish
> that from a picture composed with 24 bits per pixel.

And a cautionary tale.
I used to work for Electronic Arts on the Studio/24 product.

We had a bug report come in from an external source that
there was banding in the gradients.
I couldn't reproduce it from the bug report and semi forgot about it.
A few weeks later this same guy who had reported the bug turned up
in an EA focus group, so I got him to produce the bug for me.

He sat down at my machine, ran the program, made a gradient, and
said, "See - that banding looks awful!"

None of the other three people in my cube could see anything wrong.
The guy just had phenomenal color perception, and could see beyond
8 bits/channel color!

So, what's 'noise'?  Depends on your ears.



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