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- From: roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun)
- Subject: Re: 24-bit Color
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:33:06 GMT
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- In article <BxGv02.E29@cs.uiuc.edu> stangel@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Stangel) writes:
- >There's something else I don't understand. Why 24-bit color?
- >24 is not a power of 2, and from what I've heard the human eye
- >can only distinguish something like 87,000 different colors.
- >Seventeen bits would accomplish this, and 16 comes close enough
- >that you'd probably not know the difference. Anyone?
- >
- >Mike
- >
- What do you mean 24 is not a power of two... we mean 2^24... that's 2 to the
- 24th i.e. the 24th power of two... pretty simple, eh? AND, the human eye can
- see (although I don't think my eyes can) about 18million colors... but 16.75
- is dam close enough.
-
- Roland.
-
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- Well it worked with DOS, and it doesn't with OS2... Must be
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