Higher Resolution
by Br. Juan Acuña, c.pp.s., pbmr
(Presentation given at the gathering of the two
provinces in September)
I am very glad being here in Techny sharing these
days with all of you. This is the first time for me to
have the opportunity to be in the same room with so
many members of the Cincinnati and the Kansas City
Province together and it feels wonderful. I was invited
today to share a reflection about my hopes and dreams
for the future of the c.pp.s. in the United States.
I would like to begin by telling you something
about myself and something that I enjoy, that I
hope it will help me illustrate what I want to say today.
Most of you know that I am an engineer and I like
computers and technology and I am also very passion-
ate about digital photography. So, I would like to begin
my presentation explaining to you briefly something I
use in digital photography which I find interesting—
and which I believe relates to what I am trying to say. I
am talking about the rgb color mode.
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The rgb color mode is a system that is the foun-
dation of all your computer screens, flat screen tvs,
and smartphone devices. rgb stands for Red, Green,
and Blue colors.
Every screen is built with tiny units of 3 lights—
red, green, and blue working together—called pixels.
You can control the intensity of each color individu-
ally in a scale from 0 to 255. 0 means the light is off
and 255 the light is at its maximum intensity. The
interesting thing is because the way your eyes per-
ceive light, by adjusting the intensity of these 3 lights
you can create all the colors you see in your screen.
You don’t see red, green, and blue individually, but
you begin seeing yellow, purple, orange—about 16.8
million colors. I find that to be pretty amazing.
To create a picture on your computer or tv screen
you need to put together these pixels. The more pix-
els you have in your screen, the better resolution of
an image you can create in your computer.