With GL based desktops, how relevant in screen resolution?

[John Reiser]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> How relevant is screen resolution now that my desktop is now GL based.

There are synthetic, quantitative images that rely on false-color pixels,
and whose usefulness can be degraded substantially by arbitrary scaling.
The typical resolution of about 100 pixels per inch is fairly coarse;
for such images anti-aliasing amounts to destruction of data.
For an example that could be relevant to a programmer's desktop, see
http://bitwagon.com/duv/duv.html .  Such images can be read by eye
to a resolution of 1 part in 1000.  The program scales the display
by using a DDA (digital difference analyzer).

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