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Re: Bit depth, was Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO

2001-09-26 by Martin Wesley

Jason,

You are right about the number of pixels to measure but I was 
thinking about drawing the on screen representation with 65,000 
individual bars in the bar graph as opposed to 256. Still might be 
trival in terms of the actual computing power required I have to 
admit.

Martin



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Jason DeFontes" 
<jason@d...> wrote:
> It wouldn't take any longer to calculate a 16 bit histogram. To 
calculate
> the distribution of pixels values in an image you have to count 
every pixel.
> The number of pixels to count is the same whether you're dividing 
the
> distribution into 256 buckets or 64K.
> 
> -Jason
> 

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