On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:00:24PM +0100, J?rn Christensen wrote: > Could you explain to me why there's no advantage of 32 bit? It might be > me, but on Win98 I thought I could tell the difference between a 24bit > gradient and a 32 bit gradient - or have I fooled myself???
You have fooled yourself. 24 bit is 8 bits red, 8 bits green, 8 bits blue. 32 bit is 8 bits red, 8 bits green, 8 bits blue, 8 bits wasted. 32bit is sometimes used because it is faster, on some chips, to move things around in 4byte chunks; sometimes it is used because the last 8 bits have some transparency information in; sometimes they have some other 'metadata' in. But AFAIK, they never have colour information in. Jules _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
