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Re: "True Color" (Was: Falcon)

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From: Kendall Helmstetter Gelner
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 01:40
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The *real* meaning of True Color is that each pixel can be assinged
whatever color you like - so if each pixel has eight bits of Red, Green,
and Blue, then each pixel can have whatever value you wish for each of the
colors.  Normally, you'd have to choose 256 (or whatever) specific
combinations of those eight bits and that's all the colors you could have
on the screen (each pixel would have to be chosen to be one of the 256
colors).  With True Color, you can make any pixel on the screen be any
color you want (or as close as you can get depending on the number of bits
per pixel)

True Color has nothing to do at all with how many colors there are
avialiable.  It's really more of a hardware graphics term. So Mr. Trameil
(sp?) was right...
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---> Kendall Gelner (kendall@rice.edu)
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Subject: Re: "True Color" (Was: Falcon)
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