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Re:Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather by move-on-by on Friday June 07, 2024 @12:02PM (#40609923)
The e-ink review say the display has a dark purple color. How is your experience?
Re:Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather by blixt on Friday June 07, 2024 @12:15PM (#40610043)
I asked it to generate the weather for "The Purple Forest" (Narnia) and this is what it came up with:

https://i.imgur.com/kmKiqbO.jpg

You can zoom in on the purples. I would say it looks like a wine purple IRL.

Re:Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather by dh-g on Friday June 07, 2024 @12:19PM (#40610086)
Wow, these have come a long way.
Re:Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather by move-on-by on Friday June 07, 2024 @12:23PM (#40610136)
I’m sorry I was not very clear with my question. The review is negative- saying the ‘white’ is more like a dark purple color. I’m not asking how well it shows purple- but the general quality of the display itself.
Re:Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather by blixt on Friday June 07, 2024 @12:27PM (#40610183)
My bad, I understand now! I think it's at least as good as a Kindle. I understand why someone who is comparing to bleached paper or OLED/modern LCD screens would say it looks purple, but yeah, I have no complaints.

Edited to add: In the picture you can also see the white material at the bottom that is not part of the screen, I would say that is "true white". And the picture also has white pixels on the screen. That's the "dark purple" the review refers to in that case.

Re:Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather by nathancahill on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:08PM (#40611249)
Yeah, that's pretty purple for white. But still amazing how far this tech has come.
Re:Show HN: E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather by edpenz on Friday June 07, 2024 @10:33PM (#40614844)
The black does have a purpleish tinge on my panels, but the other colours don't. Overall it's pretty low contrast and saturation, and unable to reproduce cyan or fuchsia even with blending through any kind of blending, which makes certain things like sky and water come through poorly.

I made a palette for colour space conversions for reference: https://imgur.com/a/2vgFsT4