From: utzoo!decvax!cca!SSteinberg.SoftArts@MIT-MULTICS@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.works
Title: gray scale video
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2279
Posted: Sun Jul 25 18:20:07 1982
Received: Wed Jul 28 06:08:56 1982

Local:  works at rutgers
Original-date:  25 JUL 1982 13:30:36
Via:  Rutgers.ArpaNet; 25 Jul 82 18:19-PDT

Andrew Lippman's doctoral (or was it his masters) thesis was on
resolution and image processing and he did a lot of stuff on
drawing lines and characters using n bits per point.  From what
he gathered, having more than one gray level (in
B+W:letters+lines) doesn't buy you much.  Also, the actual gray
level made the screen look different but didn't do too much to
what could be read.  Having an intermediate gray level makes a
lot of difference on poorly converged color monitors.