You can't buy incandescent light bulbs anymore. With a few exceptions, the bulbs – patented by Thomas Edison in 1880 and a common fixture in American homes for more than a century – have ...

An 8-bit RGB value of 128 encodes a pixel that's about 22 percent as bright as a value of 255, but the graphics hardware was doing lighting calculations as though everything was linear.

"Ken Birdwell, he was a fan about photography and getting the lighting right." A graphical history of id Tech: Three decades of cutting-edge graphics and game engine technologies Former Valve exec ...

Two recent posts show MSI Gaming X Trio graphics cards, based on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, where the black backplate has been turned brown in the exact location where the light from the system ...

but for us the magic isn’t in the pen itself but in discovering how it worked with the Vectrex’s vector graphics. Light pens were a popular accessory in the 8-bit computing days, offering a ...