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Article #1593Re: "True Color" (Was: Falcon)
From: Kendall Helmstetter Gelner
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 01:40
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... -- ---> Kendall Gelner (kendall@rice.edu) Quiet people aren't the only ones who don't say much.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!news.rice.edu!kendall From: kendall@spotted.rice.edu (Kendall Helmstetter Gelner) Subject: Re: "True Color" (Was: Falcon) In-Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl's message of 14 Apr 92 08:49:50 GMT Message-ID: <KENDALL.92Apr14194005@spotted.rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas References: <1992Mar31.130356.3127@irscscm.UUCP> <56761@cup.portal.com> <6618@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> <1992Apr7.215837.21737@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <jonal.15@sofus.dhhalden.no> <57292@cup.portal.com> <1992Apr13.152529.12487@cs.ruu.nl> <8duUODG00VICA3HYsx@andrew.cmu.edu <1992Apr14.084950.25799@cs.ruu.nl> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 01:40:05 GMT Lines: 17