A Queensland court decision casts fresh doubt on the reliability of controversial AI road-safety cameras after clearing a driver fined when his passenger moved their seatbelt during a trip.
In graphics programming, we don’t use such terms arbitrarily. Mono=1, plain and simple.
The original Macintosh was proper monochrome, either pixel on or pixel off, a true ‘binary image’ as your definition states.
You ever try reading or writing graphics software? Nowhere in our code will you ever see anything besides 1 bit per pixel referred to as monochrome.
What the GameBoy has is 2 bits per pixel, which means its a paletted image, and looking past the puke green color of the screen, is otherwise considered a crude form of greyscale, not monochrome.
No shit, monochrome means the pixel is either on or off.
The GameBoy had 4 shading levels…
Man this thread has been excellent to read. Felt like watching a funny man / straight man skit. Props for bringing it home and doing the work.
In graphics programming, we don’t use such terms arbitrarily. Mono=1, plain and simple.
The original Macintosh was proper monochrome, either pixel on or pixel off, a true ‘binary image’ as your definition states.
You ever try reading or writing graphics software? Nowhere in our code will you ever see anything besides 1 bit per pixel referred to as monochrome.
What the GameBoy has is 2 bits per pixel, which means its a paletted image, and looking past the puke green color of the screen, is otherwise considered a crude form of greyscale, not monochrome.