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Newt Short Timer
Joined: 21 Dec 2001 Posts: 3176 | TRs | Pics Location: Down the road and around the corner |
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Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:13 am
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I'm wondering what the difference is between True Colors and Millions of Colors for PC's
Thanks
NN
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
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MooseAndSquirrel Member
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Newt, I just recently had experience with those settings on my computer: my video card supports 32-bit True Color (millions of colors) and 16-bit High Color (thousands). Some have 24-bit color (which I believe is milions as well). I have Win95. I had my monitor display set at 16-bit high color for quite a while and was getting banding in the display (wavy horizontal lines in the picture due to insufficient pixels). Changing it to 32-bit True Colors corrected that. For displaying photos on a monitor you want millions of color.- M&S
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Sore Feet Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 6304 | TRs | Pics Location: Out There, Somewhere |
16 bit color is 65536 colors.
32 bit color is 16,777,216 colors (I think).
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Dayhike Mike Bad MFKer
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 10958 | TRs | Pics Location: Going to Tukwila |
Sore Feet wrote: | 16 bit color is 65536 colors.
32 bit color is 16,777,216 colors (I think). |
Kinda. Thousands / 16-bit is actually 32768, with the last bit being reserved for alpha channel information. (2 ^ 15 = 32,768)
24-bit / 32-bit / True color are all pretty much the same thing. 8-bits per channel of RGB and 8-bits reserved for alpha channel. (2 ^ 24 = 16,777,216)
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"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Ignorance is natural. Stupidity takes commitment." -Solomon Short
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MooseAndSquirrel Member
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Newt Short Timer
Joined: 21 Dec 2001 Posts: 3176 | TRs | Pics Location: Down the road and around the corner |
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Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:01 pm
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Thanks for the info and breakdown. My card doesn't have millions to display. Just true color 32 bit, true color 24 bit, high color 16 bit and 256. No problems, was just wondering.
I had thought of adding some avitars. Newbie would still be in there tho. I keep everything. Yup, everything.
NN
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
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MooseAndSquirrel Member
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Hey Newbie- just given' yah some grief. If you say your card shows 32 & 24-bit color then you've got million-color display-use either of those two for the best color display.
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Newt Short Timer
Joined: 21 Dec 2001 Posts: 3176 | TRs | Pics Location: Down the road and around the corner |
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Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:07 pm
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Well, ok then. I guess you're lucky, I won't come out swingin'. I'll leave that to the ladies, er, cats.
NN
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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