Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!jejones
From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: what's a CLUT? (was Re: RAVE)
Keywords: CLUT
Message-ID: <1502@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 13:57:37 GMT
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In article <12979@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> knudsen@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (michael.j.knudsen) writes:
>I never heard of "CLUT" before, but it sounds like bits per pixel.
>I can see that an 8-bit CLUT, one pixel per byte, would be the
>easiest to program grafix algorithms for, tho heavy on memory.

CLUT = Color Look-Up Table (palette registers, for us CoCo 3 users).  (I
sometimes wonder whether Yiddish speakers are amused by talk of CLUTs... :-)
An 8-bit CLUT does mean one byte per pixel (aside from consideration of
compression schemes), since there's a 256-entry color lookup table.

	James Jones