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From: rpitt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Raymond Jeczen Pittman)
Subject: Color Workspace
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 22:59:29 GMT

I've been watching the news go back and forth lately on the 
ColorStation and have gathered the following:

It looks as though the system is capable of the following:

Displaying 4096 colors simultaneously

Palette is 16.7 million colors

Alpha Channel is NOT part of the 16 bits in the display capabilities

Thus giving an effect of more than 4096 colors via dithering.

Please comment on these as you see fit.

The question I have is the following:

Is the workspace capable of cool color backgrounds other than the
described grey?  Can we really go nuts with color stuff provided we
supply enough memory?  Do you think 24 megs would be sufficient for
most practical color purposes?  

I've seen the Macintosh with very colorful workspace, seems as though
the ColorStation should be able to top this, yes?

-- R.J.