Hello Jeff,
Friday, Friday, October 01, 1999, you wrote:
Jeff Garzik> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Nora Etukudo wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:40:55AM -0500, Timothy Litwiller wrote:
>> > They should but, cards with more than 8 meg memory are not using it for
>> > more colors they are using it to store lighting effects, textures and
>> > bumpmaps.
>> Well, I don't understand the details behind that, but Xconfigurator
>> shows an option for "32-Bit Colors" and many people think of it as
>> 4,294,967,296 colors (alias 4 billion colors) :-).
Jeff Garzik> 32-bit means 32 bits-per-pixel (bpp). I would disagree that many people
Jeff Garzik> think of it as 4 billion colors: 32 bpp includes three separate color
Jeff Garzik> components, red, green, and blue, and possibly transparency (alpha) also.
Jeff Garzik> So total colors is approximately '4 billion / 4' or '4 billion / 3',
Jeff Garzik> depending on how the colormap is set up.
Jeff Garzik> Regards,
Jeff Garzik> Jeff
so why not just say it is 32 bpp...
Best regards,
tracer
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