Thanks. I have never heard that before (and so far am unable to find any citations about it).
Now at the same time, clearly this is not the set of 16 colors by which EGA is most commonly known. Shouldn't we have a palette for that? ;) -- Stratadrake [email protected] -------------------- Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 10:21:58 -0300 > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's "EGA" default palette > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > > On 7 September 2015 at 03:22, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are we talking EGA as in > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter ? Or am I missing > > something important? What is this palette, anyway? > Yes. > So, as the name says, it has the 16 colors taht were hardcoded in the > firmware for those adapters. That is not useful for anything today, > but for having 16 highly distinguished colors - and there is the > historical fun aspect of it,as you found out. > > > js > -><- > > > > -- Stratadrake > > [email protected] > > -------------------- > > Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-user-list mailing list > > List address: [email protected] > > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
