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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System CLUT's weird pallette
Message-ID: <40165@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 90 00:18:24 GMT
References: <5671@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <5671@accuvax.nwu.edu> barger@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu
(Jorn Barger) writes:
>Can anyone explain how Apple chose the layout of the system clut???
>It seems rather heavy on certain ranges of shades, weak on others, and the
>arrangement is not at all intuitive or obviously regular...

The first 216 colors in the default clut are all possible combinations of
6 values each of red, green, and blue (6^3 = 216). The last 40 colors
consist of 10 values of pure red, 10 pure greens, 10 pure blues, and 10
grays.
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