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minus-squarevithigar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 months agoHuman eyes are more sensitive to green than blue or red, and more readily notice details and defects in green shading.
minus-squarePsythik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-24 months agoFurthermore, our eyes are really bad at blue, so much so that you can reduce the resolution of blue pixels 3x, and people won’t even notice. Most streaming videos are encoded this way. This old article has some nice visual examples and is still relevant today.
minus-squaretjsauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoI knew this stuff, yet i was still surprised by just how bad reducing green is
Human eyes are more sensitive to green than blue or red, and more readily notice details and defects in green shading.
Furthermore, our eyes are really bad at blue, so much so that you can reduce the resolution of blue pixels 3x, and people won’t even notice. Most streaming videos are encoded this way.
This old article has some nice visual examples and is still relevant today.
I knew this stuff, yet i was still surprised by just how bad reducing green is