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Originally Posted by NuPogodi
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(UPDATE) It seems that 8bpp-improvement is some kind of marketing mythos. Hex-codes in the attached raw file are always with the same high and low 4bit-nibbles, like 0x00, 0x11, ... 0xEE, 0xFF. It means that there are actually 16 colors. It might be a bit improved by dithering, but nevertheless... only 16 grades of gray, like in old-fashioned models (k2, k3 & kdx), just a bit remapped to increase the buffersize  |
See my newtrix demo to see how to mirror the top 4-bits into the bottom 4-bits on an 8-bit framebuffer. The GPL device driver code actually says that the bottom 4 bits MUST be equal to the top 4 bits, or the eink hardware can behave in an "unpredictable" manner (depending on specific hardware). My newtrix demo also does dithering to get 256 shades of gray into each of those 4-bit pixel copies in the second demo in that program. Check it out.
