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- From: peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (Peter Eisch)
- Subject: Re: RGB Values of "NeXT Help Blue" -- NOT 12-bit pure !
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- References: <2B6811EC.1252@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:22:39 GMT
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- In article <2B6811EC.1252@deneva.sdd.trw.com> kieffer@spf.trw.com (Robert
- Kieffer) writes:
- > In article <1k8i4n$mhl@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
- > (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
- > >
- > > Actually, on a closer examination, Mail's Help Panel text color gets
- > > dithered on Color Station. There are actually two kinds of pixels
- > > (RGB) = (51, 68, 136) and (RGB) = (51, 68, 153). The former gives
- > > B=0.5333 and the latter gives 0.6. So, it's not a 12-bit pure color.
- > > You've got to pick the color on a NeXTdimension to get the correct
- > > information.
- > >
- >
- > My NeXTDimension gives RGB = (51, 68, 152) FYI.
-
- If this is about the little link diamond that is used in help, then read on.
- Otherwise this is of little use to you...
-
- I looked at the image resource that the shared image is composited from and it
- is a RGBA image that holds 4bits per sample. Thus, it will be the same whether
- it displayed on a station or dimension. Chances are that it was dithered when
- the image was 'cast in stone' as a tiff file.
-
-
-
- > Robert Kieffer
- > kieffer@spf.trw.com
-
- peter
- peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu
-