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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better Amiga Graphics and HDTV
Message-ID: <285@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 90 07:35:05 GMT
References: <3484@crash.cts.com> <1990Jul13.144616.21100@pmafire.UUCP>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1990Jul13.144616.21100@pmafire.UUCP> seh@pmafire.UUCP (Steve Holaday) writes:
>BTW the pallet should only needs to be large
>enough to display 1 million pixels (2^20 or less).  This will allow each
>pixel of a 1024 by 1024 display to be a different color.

Er, if you store 24 or 32 bits per pixel, you simply don't need any
palette! But your argument sounds interesting: If you can afford to
limit yourself to 1 mio pixels then only 10 bit per pixel would again
be sufficient, cutting memory consumption by a factor of 2 to 3.
But would that be worth the new limitations?


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