#403f5f — Public Fediverse posts

@pancake Aha, thanks for the pointer. Yes, that's in related area, and nicely illustrates the problem. Select all black, and you'll get dark blue screen with backlight on, right? About #403f5f. My current hacks are in [email protected]:pavelmachek/Espruino.git (for a pc) and [email protected]:tui/tui.git (bwatch/dithering.js for bangle).

But first thing would be .. I'd really like to understand how that display works and how to properly model it :-).

@pancake Aha, thanks for the pointer. Yes, that's in related area, and nicely illustrates the problem. Select all black, and you'll get dark blue screen with backlight on, right? About #403f5f. My current hacks are in [email protected]:pavelmachek/Espruino.git (for a pc) and [email protected]:tui/tui.git (bwatch/dithering.js for bangle).

But first thing would be .. I'd really like to understand how that display works and how to properly model it :-).

So #banglejs2 display is great at sunlight, but not so great at displaying color.

+/* With backlight on, fujitsu desktop monitor, gimp color picker
+
+ H S V
+ 0 Black is #403f5f 241 33% 37%
+
+ 1 Blue is about #4b6ec0 222 33% 61%
+ 2 Green is #839d68 89 33% 61%
+ 3 "sage green" #7ea581 123 23% 64%
+ 4 Red is about #9d6868 0 33% 61%
+ 5 "muted mauve" #897593 280 20% 57%
+ 6 "sage gray" #cdd5bc 79 11% 83%
+
+ 7 White is cca #a3e8b0 131 30% 91%

Hints how to convert web colors into this base would be welcome. It is 3-bit display, but I can do dithering, I guess...

So #banglejs2 display is great at sunlight, but not so great at displaying color.

+/* With backlight on, fujitsu desktop monitor, gimp color picker
+
+ H S V
+ 0 Black is #403f5f 241 33% 37%
+
+ 1 Blue is about #4b6ec0 222 33% 61%
+ 2 Green is #839d68 89 33% 61%
+ 3 "sage green" #7ea581 123 23% 64%
+ 4 Red is about #9d6868 0 33% 61%
+ 5 "muted mauve" #897593 280 20% 57%
+ 6 "sage gray" #cdd5bc 79 11% 83%
+
+ 7 White is cca #a3e8b0 131 30% 91%

Hints how to convert web colors into this base would be welcome. It is 3-bit display, but I can do dithering, I guess...