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- From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: 24-bit Color
- Message-ID: <4482.1100.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:42:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
- Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
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- MS>There's something else I don't understand. Why 24-bit color?
- MS>24 is not a power of 2
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- BITS... 24 bits! Any number of bits would most likely be a power of
- two, think about it!
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- MS>...and from what I've heard the human eye
- MS>can only distinguish something like 87,000 different colors.
- MS>Seventeen bits would accomplish this, and 16 comes close enough
- MS>that you'd probably not know the difference. Anyone?
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- There is a definite difference between 32k color modes and the 24 bit
- modes with my Diamond SpeedStar 24x, unfortunately, one of the differences
- is that 24 bit mode is "snail slow"!
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