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Experimenting with monochrome display settings is interesting and useful, both on laptop and on portable telephone.
However certain types of stuff requires colour display. Especially photographs or maps, and certain other technical charts where data is visualised using colours.
Proposed is an
object tagging system, whereby every item in a computer display space has a colour display hierarchy tag. So, for example, there could be a scale from 1 to 8, and colour photographs could be tagged 1; user interface could be tagged 8, and other things could be tagged with other numbers depending on how important the colour is to their use or comprehension.
The user would then specify a colour rendering level on a sliding scale, which specified what would be rendered in colour (tags =< settings) and what would be rendered in monochrome (tags > settings). For example, Selecting 8 would display everything in full colour. Selecting 0 would display everything in monochrome. Selecting 7 would display everything in colour except for the user interface controls. Selecting 1 would display colour photographs in colour but everything else in monochrome.
Monochromatic Glasses
vaguely relevant [pocmloc, Dec 19 2021]
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Perhaps adjusting saturation levels could provide the
desired effect? (Smooth transition from unsaturated to
saturated full color) |
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This is envisaged as a binary switch between full colour and monochrome, but done on an element-by-element basis. |
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It can be done at the display rendering level, which is how I currently am viewing a mono laptop display and typing into a mono halfbakery and checking my mono messages on mono android. All well and good. But it would be nice if the android display rendering thingy could tell the difference between the messaging app borders and buttons and backgrounds (rendering them in mono) and the photo my mother has just sent of how well her tomatos are ripening in the greenhouse (which would be quite nice to view in full colour). |
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Hmmm I haven't tried that. |
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Right, so all you would need is a set of robot arms mounted at the edge of the monitor to move and remove the colour films as you scroll and open new windows or apps. How about implementing it in software instead... |
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Also, you are back to front, we are not talking about artificially saturising a monochrome image (which would involve creating new fake information) but of de-saturising selected areas of a colour image. I am not finding monochrome filter film on Amazon nor even on alibaba. |
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I like this - each display element would have to justify and argue for
its use of colour to the OS colourfulness police |
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What's a portable telephone. Do we still have those in 2021? |
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[pashute] we need a new word. It’s like the word ‘camera’ which
used to mean ‘film camera’ and then when digital cameras were
introduced they were called ‘digital cameras’ to distinguish them
from ‘cameras’. Now though ‘camera’ means digital cameras and
we distinguish film cameras from these by explicitly referring to
them as ‘film cameras’. In a similar way, ‘phone’ is changing its
meaning to what we used to refer to as ‘mobile phone’ and we are
starting to refer to what we used to call ‘phones’ as ‘landline
phones’. |
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Do people still use cameras? I thought everyone took photos using their wireless portable telephony device handset. |
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That’s true, and also that’s why the term ‘cameraphone’ has been
replaced by ‘phone’ |
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That's some heavy vector graphic data set work, to
give the taggable image areas and objects to
manipulate. |
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Looking at a page which included a red-cyan anaglyph 3D colour photograph, I accidentally pressed the b/w mode button and of course the anaglyph disappeared into a fuzzy b/w image. Is it computationally possible or sensible to re-render a colour anaglyph into a red/cyan anaglyph b/w photograph? |
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B&W, no. But in grayscale, it might be possible to start from
a neutral gray, and render the two colors in shades towards
black and white. |
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(I don't actually know if this would work). |
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