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- From: sdoran@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (Steven Marcotte)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: N bit planes/pixel or N bits/pixel?
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 21:04:19 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- What is the advantage of N bitplanes/pixel over N bits/pixel? I would
- think that the N bin/pixel (packed-pixel) representation would offer
- better speed than jumping through memory and performing bit twiddling,
- especially at 8 bits/pixel.
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- Steven
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