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- From: cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: How does 16 bit color work?
- Message-ID: <cshotton-110193133957@oac2.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 19:48:50 GMT
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- I understand that 8 bit color uses a look-up table to index a 8-bit pixel
- value into a RGB value with 16 bits for each R, G, and B component. This
- allows palette animation, etc. 24 bit color uses the 24 bit pixel value to
- derive the "true" color, correct? This precludes palette animation, etc.
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- How is 16 bit color implemented?
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