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Re:Bouncing DVD Logo by extrapickles on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:34AM (#22886435)
The LCDs you see this on are 6-bit color displays using temporal dithering to pretend to be 8-bit color.
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Re:Bouncing DVD Logo by garaetjjte on Thursday April 16, 2020 @08:55AM (#22888852)
The reason for flickering on specific patterns is independent of temporal dithering. This is caused by cyclic polarity inversion: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/inversion.php

(temporal dithering usually is visible as slight noise on darker shades)

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Re:Bouncing DVD Logo by exikyut on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:48AM (#22887717)
That's why drop shadows look horrible when I'm looking at my screen at the wrong angle... I knew it was a dithering thing, forgot LCDs were 6-bit.
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Re:Bouncing DVD Logo by blattimwind on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:50AM (#22888088)
Only cheap/low-end LCDs are 6 bit. Most are 8 bit with no dithering.
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Re:Bouncing DVD Logo by aasasd on Thursday April 16, 2020 @08:39AM (#22888739)
Should this be the case with a Macbook, even if a sorta old one? Because that's the machine I've seen the flicker on, for the past bunch of years.
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