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Originally Posted by Kolenka
Dithering with just B&W looks terrible in practice, even at 200ppi. Half-toning at 300ppi would be interesting to see, although hard to implement.
It's an interesting idea, but the issue I see is that the slowest part of the eInk is the black/white transition. Eliminating colors to leave behind white and black also leaves behind the slowest transition.
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My idea was instead of the tons of very small particles in the "pixel" that you can use electricity to put some quantity on the surface, to use something like... let's say a "ball" that is pure white on one end and pure black on the other half, so it needs to "rotate" only to change. It may as well eliminate the need for the full refreshes too, as you won't have "residual" particles from the last color, it is either black or white and without full refresh eink is pretty fast as it is.
Since what I do care for book reading is the perfect contrast on the text... it might work, and might allow for even higher res screens when not needing to manage lot of ultra-small particles. Plus, screen can be made much more robust - you wont have fragile liquid bubbles anymore. Just a thought...