Scott Hill wrote:
> 
> Lewis Sellers <lse### [at] usitnet> wrote in article
> <361985AC.9E872B94@usit.net>...
> > Sirrus wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> >
> > It's your video mode. Change it to 24 or 32bit and it will go away.
> >
> > Realize this: that in 8bit mode you have a choice of 256 color out of a
> > pallette 262144 colours (rgb 6:6:6b).
> 
>         It's hair splitting, but, isn't 8bit 256 out of 16,777,216 ?

Depends. On the classic VGA cards it's 6:6:6 (6 bits red, 6 green, and 6
blue). On some SVGA cards these days it IS 8:8:8. But those are not very
common. :)

Anyway, the point I was making was that usually displaying a truecolor
(or millions if you're on a mac) image in 16bit hicolor (or thousands on
a mac) mode means that the the software simply drops off the least
significant color bits as 3:2:3. And that causes a lack of color
smoothness.
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