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- In article <4e5gg2$f6@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> wmagro@msc.cornell.edu (William Magro) writes:
- >The catch here is that the 256 colors of VGA are chosen from a palette
- >of 256k (or fewer) colors with standard VGA cards. Since each gray
- >must have equal components of red, green, and blue, this reduces the
- >effective number of true grays to 64 [=262144^(1/3)]. It takes a
- >24-bit D/A converter (8-bits in each channel) to generate 256 grays.
- >
- >In the end, the number of grays you can generate depends on the bitness
- >of your DAC and the smarts of the video driver.
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- Does this mean that with the right video card it is possible to get
- 256 grayscale on executor now? I ask because I am thinking about getting
- a new video card (leading contender, #9 771).
-
- Thanks...Gerry
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