Intel graphics drivers do adaptive contrast, so that a bright white will rapidly be dimmed.
You could probably implement this yourself by sampling the display and using the monitor DDC. I've done something similar for color data to set ambient lighting.
I don't see a fundamental reason why this couldn't exist, because in principle it would be a pretty straightforward thing to implement. It sounds like what you're asking for is essentially a low-pass filter for the brightness of the entire screen (or, more specifically, a filter for each color channel so that blue can be filtered more than red or green)
I think the largest barrier to making something like that would be graphics APIs, as you'd need to read/buffer the entire screen and then apply the filter to every pixel. It would also probably make videos and motion look weird. But, I don't see why it couldn't be done.
You're describing image contrast, high contrast pushes the pixel intensity out to the extremes (black & white), low contrast pushes it to the middle* (grey).
I'm pretty sure every monitor I've ever used has a setting for it, which is about as close to the end of the pipeline as you're going to get.
*The brightness setting means it might not actually be a middle grey
I am not primarily interested in adjusting the overall breadth of range in contrast of pixels, I am interested in moderating how FAST overall brightness is allowed to change with a small degree of limiting maximum brightness/blueness added in as well.
Hmm, well the latter part is still standard monitor controls (contrast, brightness, colour temperature)
For the former, limiting how fast brightness can change would effectively be the same as a poor pixel response time. This tends to manifest as image ghosting past a certain point and is usually seen as pretty undesirable given it means you lose a lot of detail around anything in motion
For the former, limiting how fast brightness can change would effectively be the same as a poor pixel response time. This tends to manifest as image ghosting past a certain point and is usually seen as pretty undesirable given it means you lose a lot of detail around anything in motion
I am well aware there would be distortion, I would turn the compressor off when viewing dynamic content.
There isn't really a way to change pixel response time outside of buying a new (crappy) monitor.
Plus that could result in more bright pixels staying bright for longer
As for the blue-ness reduction, many monitors come with an "eye care" setting that drops the max brightness and reduces blue tint. The LG C5 I got a couple months ago has it and might be the closest thing you can get prepackaged. It being OLED doesn't help with bright flashes though, probably makes them worse by comparison.
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