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nomeltoday at 12:31 AM2 repliesview on HN

And this is important because our perception is more sensitive to luminance changes than color, and with our eyes being most sensitive to green, luminance is also. So, higher perceived spatial resolution by using more green [1]. This is also why JPG has lower resolution red and green channels, and why modern OLED usually use a pentile display, with only green being at full resolutio [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter#Explanation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family


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card_zerotoday at 12:41 AM

Funny that subpixels and camera sensors aren't using the same layouts.

userbinatortoday at 12:45 AM

Pentile displays are acceptable for photos and videos, but look really horrible displaying text and fine detail --- which looks almost like what you'd see on an old triad-shadow-mask colour CRT.