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Old 03-07-2018, 12:52 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
It kind of does matter for ghosting purposes. It shows up more in the background. If you create inverted mode by drawing the background and leaving the words empty, then over time the letters itself become muddled. On the Oasis in inverted after a refresh the background is black and the words are drawn as white.

See the difference? Paint something on the screen and you get very slight bleedover. Now if you erase it, you keep some of the bleedover as ghost. I personally rather have my ghost in the background and not have it looking like bad letters.
The problem with your statement is that the standard screen refresh does not write part of the screen. It writes the whole screen -- every pixel is written white/black/white or black/white/black. The Regal waveform refresh did partial screen refreshes but it requires matching the screen and device and takes a lot more memory keeping track of the pixel states. Used to be fun on my Kobo Aura watching the edges of characters writhing as the refresh occurred.
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