----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Ardiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: PalmOS: color soon?
> at the moment, in grayscale each point is represented using 4 bits
> - that is, we have 2*2*2*2 possible values = 16. i assume what they
> are going to do with the new processor is to align pixels on a
> 8 bit boundary (much like classic VGA programming). i dont quite
> understand what you are referring to.. maybe 12 bits?
But if each of the "points" in your example above represented the red, green
or blue element of a pixel instead of a whole pixel, then you'd get 16*16*16
= 4096 colors per pixel (16 levels of red, 16 levels of blue and 16 levels
of green).
Art
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