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From: Ken_Cooper@mindlink.bc.ca (Ken Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: So, does *anyone* make 1024x768 x256 for the A3000?
Message-ID: <5651@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 26 Apr 91 22:57:06 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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Frank McPherson writes:

Do these things have 24 bits of information per pixel, or do they have
24 bitplanes?  What's the difference?  I thought that 24 bitplanes MEANT
that something had 24 bits of colour information per pixel.  If that's
not what it means, then my understanding of bitplanes is way off, and
someone should explain it to me.

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True color requires a certain number of shades, so that the eye doesn't see
banding. Hence 256 shades. And with 3 colors - red, green & blue =
256x256x256 = 16,777,216

8 bits per color x 3 colors = 24 bit color.