Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: NeXTdimension board - multiple heads on a cube? Message-ID: <1990Sep25.171544.5774@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <276@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <550@wjh12.harvard.edu> <1990Sep24.084343.3794@agate.berkeley.edu> <50958@brunix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 17:15:44 GMT In article <50958@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes: >Can you tell me what colors you want to look up that 24-bit color does >not bring to a screen directly without a look-up? Apart from the points that other people have raised -- animation and color correction -- it is worth noting that 8 bits per color is not enough for some fussy applications like remote-sensing work. -- TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry