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Re:True Colour support in various terminals by citrusui on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:05AM (#13866263)
Serious question: will terminals ever support P3 color? Maybe that's too much to ask for?

https://webkit.org/blog/6682/improving-color-on-the-web/ https://webkit.org/blog-files/color-gamut/comparison.html

Re:True Colour support in various terminals by nenreme on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:16AM (#13867226)
Why P3? It is better to go directly to Rec. 2100 with HDR which is more future-proof.
Re:True Colour support in various terminals by grp on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:35AM (#13866379)
It only improves images, no?
Re:True Colour support in various terminals by HappyTypist on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:08AM (#13866500)
It's a wider color space. It improves the color range of everything, assuming the source hasn't been flattened to SRGB.
Re:True Colour support in various terminals by ygra on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:29AM (#13866576)
Well, yes, but what are the benefits for text over 24-bit colour? To have two even less different shades of a colour adjacent to each other? For images there's a very clear benefit, but for a text frame buffer I'd say not so much.
Re:True Colour support in various terminals by nenreme on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:20AM (#13867259)
What you are talking about is bit-depth which is not related to color spaces (although for wider color spaces you need higher bit-depth to avoid banding).
Re:True Colour support in various terminals by ziotom78 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:53AM (#13867078)
See my comment above: it would allow more precise specification of a color by avoiding the need of indexing an implementation-dependent palette.
Re:True Colour support in various terminals by nenreme on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @10:21AM (#13867676)
citrusui originally asked about DCI-P3 color space, ygra then confused this wider color space with higher bit-depth. Now you want to further confuse everyone by referring to your comment about advantages of 24-bit RGB over paletted colors which is completely irrelevant to the original comment about DCI-P3 color space. DCI-P3 contains colors which are outside of the gamut representable by the 24-bit RGB (which uses sRGB color space).
Re:True Colour support in various terminals by ziotom78 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:12AM (#13868103)
Sorry, it wasn't my intention to hurt you with my comment.
Re:True Colour support in various terminals by nenreme on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:48AM (#13868483)
No problem :)