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Old 03-19-2018, 09:32 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Assume that the colour filters let through 1/3 of the incident light. Then the total light reflected by the three coloured sub pixels is equivalent to the reflected light from one white sub-pixel, so the four sub-pixels in a colour display reflect half as much light as four 'sub-pixels' in a B&W display.

So the white subpixel is twice as reflective as E-Ink, but the colour filter cuts reflectance in half. So the 'white' of the colour display will be about as white as an unlit E-Ink display.
The numbers would work. Visually:

Makes you also wonder about how an unfiltered TIR would look like.
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