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  3. From: stangel@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Stangel)
  4. Subject: Re: 24-bit Color
  5. Message-ID: <BxGv02.E29@cs.uiuc.edu>
  6. Sender: news@cs.uiuc.edu
  7. Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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  9. Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:45:38 GMT
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  12. There's something else I don't understand.  Why 24-bit color?
  13. 24 is not a power of 2, and from what I've heard the human eye
  14. can only distinguish something like 87,000 different colors.
  15. Seventeen bits would accomplish this, and 16 comes close enough
  16. that you'd probably not know the difference.  Anyone?
  17.  
  18. Mike
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