[openbeos] Re: The Size of Colour Spaces
- From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:53:39 -0400 EDT
François Revol wrote on Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:33:14 +0200:
> Well, you know the human eye can't even distinguish the 16M colors we use
> in 24 bit modes anyway... The only use for 128 bits modes would be for
> doing composition with alpha and stuff internally.
I can distinguish between some of them, particularly when trying to do a smooth
gray scale - there are only 256 levels! But 16 bits per RGB component should
be enough. Though if Microsoft is using 32 bits, is it really useful or just
marketing?
- Alex
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