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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clemtaylor@comcast.net, qg@biodome.org, rogers@isi.edu
Subject: Re: reverse engineering pwcx
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:25:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093710358.8611.22.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093709838.434.6797.camel@cube>

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 12:17, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > The LavaRnd guys examined the pixels on the actual
> > CCD chip.  It's 160x120.  The 'decompression' is
> > just interpolation.
> 
> Don't put much faith in the 160x120 number. Suppose
> that the chip is in a Bayer pattern, with 160x120
> of those. Well, how many pixels is that? Who knows.
> You'd sort of have 160x120, but with double the
> green data. Since green carries most of the luminance
> information, producing a larger image is reasonable.

Right, as someone else pointed out, this is wrong.

How do you account for the Slashdot poster's assertion that it's
physically impossible to cram 640 x 480 worth of data down a USB 1.1
pipe?

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-28 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-28 16:17 reverse engineering pwcx Albert Cahalan
2004-08-28 16:25 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-08-28 16:56   ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-28 17:11     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 18:05       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-28 17:53   ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-08-28 18:04     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 18:08       ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 21:04 ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-30  7:42   ` Paul Jakma
2004-08-30 12:52     ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-30 20:23       ` dulle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-28  0:52 QuantumG
     [not found] ` <20040828012055.GL24018@isi.edu>
     [not found]   ` <20040828014931.GM24018@isi.edu>
2004-08-28  3:14     ` QuantumG
2004-08-28  3:35       ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-28  3:49         ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 12:23           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-28 19:20             ` Chris Meadors
2004-08-28  3:57         ` QuantumG
2004-08-28 12:07       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-28  6:47 ` Clem Taylor
2004-08-28 12:23   ` Wouter Van Hemel

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