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- From: c60a-bw@danube.Berkeley.EDU (James Wang)
- Subject: Re: Mac IIvx and color depth.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.234352.23370@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- References: <Bx94w5.Myz@rice.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:43:52 GMT
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- In article <Bx94w5.Myz@rice.edu> add@is.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham) writes:
- >> 1). When a IIvx is in 8 bit mode can it do 256 greys? (yes?)
- >>
- >> 2). When a IIvx in in 16 bit mode can it do 256 greys?
- >
- >1). Yes, it just puts 256 shades of grey in the CLUT (color look-up
- >table). The CLUT can have any 256 colors out of the palette of 16 million.
- >
- >2). Not when "Colors" is selected in the control panel. 16-bit mode does
- >NOT have a CLUT (it would take up too much memory). Since 16-bit mode
- >is 5 bits red, 5 bits green, and 5 bits blue, and grey is R=G=B, there
- >are 5 bits worth of greys, which is 32 total greys. By the way, the
- >extra bit is unused ("Reserved" in official Apple-lingo).
- >
- >If you are in "Greys" mode, you would get 16 bits worth of
- >greys, which is 65536 greys. Maybe 15 bits (as I have not verified this).
- >
- >Mark Thomas
- >sonatech%thomas@hub.ucsb.edu
- >
-
- wrong, there is no way to get 2^16 (65536) grays because you need to
- specify the same number to all three of the primary colors and that
- means 256 combinations of each color since 8 bits are devoted to each
- color. but you will get 256 grays nonetheless.
-