Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!pur-phy!murphy From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Neptune Voyager Pix directly viewable on Amiga Message-ID: <2519@pur-phy> Date: 7 Sep 89 14:08:57 GMT References: <21728@cup.portal.com> <2497@pur-phy> Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy) Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN Lines: 21 In article portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: >In article <2497@pur-phy> murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes: > > Although HAM will sacrifice some resolution, > it will allow more gray scale approximations. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > >No, it won't. The Amiga has four bits of color resolution each for R, >G and B. It is limited to sixteen greyscales no matter what display >mode you choose. They can all be displayed in a high-res image. >\/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. > portuesi@SGI.COM I tried to e-mail respond, but it bounced. Miachael please read what is written. I did not say more gray scale, but gray scale approximations. What I mean by this is that each true gray R=G=B may be adjusted +- 1 bit in either R G or B which approximates gray while not yielding a true gray. I should have been more explicit. Bill Murphy