Color

[tonnes]

I was looking at some of my fullscreen stuff on a friend's Mac and noticed that some of the colors look quite different. They looked somewhat blocky, characterized by reduced tonality and color depth. For instance certain parts of a dark sky had an uneven, purplish color instead of the dark, deep blue displayed on other PC's. I did not check his monitor's color settings, but when viewing photos on his Mac they looked just fine. The problem only showed up when viewing the fullscreen panos.

I generally produce 1528-pixel cubefaces, 8-bit, RGB, 60% jpeg compression. They range between 1-4mb.

I'm wondering why the pano looked so different on my friend's iMac, which he purchased in 2004. It was viewed in the Safari browser. Does PurePlayer degrade the image's color depth for older versions of Apple's JVM? Or if there isn't enough RAM?

Are there recommended image output settings that we can implement to reduce the chances of this happening?

Thanks,

Dave

[Mathieu]

Normaly, it may have do difference between rendering on MacOS and Windows. This is a Java program, and all things works the same onPc and Mac JVM.
The only difference may come from the fact your friend computer display use 16 bits color depth. The conversion from32 bits to 16 bits may explain why the color is not exactely the same.
Look at his display color depth and make a test.