Who needs 24 bit colors

[DanKarron at UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU]

If you are dithering about colors and bits, here is an interesting piece from
Photonics Spectra, April 1991, Page 119.

Essentialy, the author, Kendal Preston, Jr. argues that we don't need more than
8 bits of color info, and by doing histogram analysis of a medical photomicro-
graph of stained cells shows that most of the histogram bins are empty, and
that dynamic data compression is possible by using a color map with various
criteria to assign a color to a color values with a high frequency.

I don't agree that we should not consider >8 bit in color
workstation design, and we should consider that his scanner may not
have the dynamic range resolution to more evenly fill the color distribution
of his scanned images.

What do you think?

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