[HN Gopher] Diamond Subpixel Arrangement Simulator
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       Diamond Subpixel Arrangement Simulator
        
       Author : firloop
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2024-01-11 06:45 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | Would this blow up my screen if my iPhone sub pixel renderer
       | tried to display the exact sub pixel pattern causing some sort of
       | recursive rendering and display lighting?
        
         | wahnfrieden wrote:
         | No
        
         | notso411 wrote:
         | What?
        
         | jxy wrote:
         | That's what would happen if you use Planck pixel renderer.
        
       | tomsmeding wrote:
       | That 4K render of an iPhone screen is so uselessly accurate it's
       | great.
        
       | DiabloD3 wrote:
       | Neat, but I kinda wish manufacturers would quit making cursed
       | displays like this.
       | 
       | Either follow the existing convention, or try your best to hide
       | the subpixels entirely.
        
         | fidotron wrote:
         | This layout has the distinct advantage you can rotate the
         | screen with everything remaining the same (font hinting etc.)
         | 
         | Varying subpixel layouts are one of the major reasons I
         | struggle to take the obsessions of "pixel perfect" designers
         | seriously [1]. It is the kind of notion you can only advocate
         | if you're ignorant of the reality of what is going on. Display
         | aging and resulting color inaccuracies make this even more fun.
         | 
         | [1] Not helped by having worked on products where the designers
         | quoted 25 years (not a typo) as the time required to support
         | all the supposedly necessary profiles, and the resulting build
         | size would have been too big and so we lost a multi million
         | dollar opportunity. Of course anyone opposing this was simply
         | an enemy of quality.
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         | Edit to add: for those unfamiliar
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType was a very sneaky way
         | to take advantage of the fact that the subpixel layout
         | dramatically alters the outlines the viewer sees.
        
           | infotainment wrote:
           | Do people still worry about "pixel perfection"? It made sense
           | in the era of low resolution displays, but with everything
           | super high PPI these days, it seems like it typically doesn't
           | matter.
        
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