DanielThe 12-bit rainbox palette is very pleasing to my eyes:
Andrew "Ace" Arsenault@dznz I remember when designing a video output system for NTSC Television, 4bits per RGB (12bit pallette) was the ideal trade off between simplicity and color space conversion.
With dithering on old TVs there was no noticeable advantage of additional bits in the output DAC.
@AceArsenault that’s fascinating! Possibly related: there seems to be an interesting renewed interest in the limits and benefits of CRT tech in the same way vinyl had a renaissance.
@dznz Yeah. : ]
Old TV systems here in the US only had a resolution of 160 individual "pixels" of color per line.
They wheren't pixels because it's analog, but same general idea (discrete points on the phase modulation carrier).
Additional data past 12 bits RGB made no real noticeable difference since everything get blurred and interpolated anyway.
CRT's have soft look to them, which is why the renewed interest in using them with old computers and video games.