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From: zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Color Workspace
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Date: 24 Apr 91 07:38:21 GMT
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>   Displaying 4096 colors simultaneously
>
>correct.
>
>   Palette is 16.7 million colors
>
>nope. this is NeXTdimension. But then with the color-dithering of the
>NeXTstation... 
>

    Don't the 12 bits go directly to the 3 color guns, 4 bits for each gun?
This would mean that you can have 4096 different colors, but you can only
have 16 colors of gray rather then 256 shades of gray for a number of other
color machines (VGA cards, Macs, Suns, Decs, etc.)  This can be quite
important to people doing image processing types of applications.

Andrew
zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu