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From: cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
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Subject: Re: color NeXTstation
Keywords: color NeXTstation 16 bit
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Date: 21 Sep 90 19:54:16 GMT
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In article <34@brazos.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes:
>I've heard that the color system for the color NeXTstation is
>16-bit color.  Would anyone care to expound upon this?  Is the
>16-bit color divided into 4 Red bits, 4 Green bits, and 4 Blue
>bits (and 4 bits for ?) or does the 16-bits refer to the size of
>the lookup table (i.e. 2^16 colors selectable from a palette of ?)?
>
>Thanks.

	well, the definition of 16-bit color here on NeXTstation means
	12 bits of colors and 4 bits of transparency. So you actually
	get only 4096 different colors, but with 4 bits transparency.



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