Description

WARNING: This is the app the nice folks at Pebble warned you about. The one that might hurt your watch. It does something ill advised, and drains the battery very rapidly. Don't install it unless you absolutely have to see.

Explanation: Since the SDK came out, I've seen multiple people in developer threads asking whether or not you could simulate greyscale by switching back and forth very rapidly between multiple images. I was curious myself, so I built an app that does that.

Once you launch the app it shows a 1 bit image. Click the select button, and it shows two images, alternatingly, around 60fps, which combine to give you the effect of a 1.5 bit (black, white, and 50% grey) image, for comparison. While this is happening, the processor is doing a lot of work, and presumably you are inordinately shortening the life of your pebble by draining the battery unnecessarily.

The result? Somewhat unsatisfying. It does look better than the 1 bit image, but it sometimes flickers oddly under flourescent lights, and it doesn't look that much better. Underwhelming, and certainly not worth the strain on the hardware.

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