Jim Wrote: <<<Ya, and amazingly, I don't see any grain on my monitor>>> To wit Karl replied ... <<<nor should you, given the viewing distance, the video cards rendering tricks and the fact that you're used to seeing a screen made up of lots of little dots.>>> I agree: when we look at a TV or a monitor we don't see dots - though strangely with some of the new flat screen LCD monitors I actually get the feeling I do ;o) My suspicion is that part of the reason we don't see dots is that, for CRT screens anyway, the hypothetical pixels are a bit blurred anyway - the beams don't have a rigid box-shaped profile and there is a random element to the envelope. But I'm also wondering if a larger part of it comes from within (our brains) via expectation/accustomisation. We are so used to "watching" TV that we make automatically make allowances for the medium. View a picture made up of 1024 x 768 dots on a screen and we "see" the scene it should depict. Print out the same image faithfully to hard copy and we see the dots: we are accustomed to reading very high resolution images / text in magazines. Daft idea? Well, such a phenomenon is well known for audio signals where people who have heard a tune on a decent system hear more than is there when they hear it on a badly distorted weak radio signal. The mind fills in the gaps ... All just speculation. Bob
