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by kurthr 700 days ago
You really can't think about single wavelength tunable pixels as something except at the edge HSL.

I think about it from the CIE "triangle" where wavelength traces the outer edge, or even the Lab (Luminance a-green/red b-yellow/blue) color space since it's more uniform in perceivable SDR color difference (dE).

https://luminusdevices.zendesk.com/hc/article_attachments/44...

One key realization is that although 1 sub-pixel can't cover the gamut of sRGB (or Rec2020), but only 2 with wavelength and brightness control rather than 3 RGB. Realistically, this allows something like super-resolution because your blue (and red) visual resolution is much less than your green (eg 10-30pix/deg rather than ~60ppd). However, your eye's sensitivity off their XYZ peaks are less and perceived brightness would fall.

I guess what I'm saying is that a lot of the assumptions baked into displays have to be questioned and worked out for these kinds of pixels to get their full benefit.

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Good point, the HSL edge includes magenta which is of course not a wavelength.