Larry Hudson <org### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> But that would give gray values only.  Going linearly from rgb <1, 1, 1> 
> to rgb <0, 0, 0> would change the red/green/blue values together 
> resulting in gray values throughout.  Infinite gradations 
> (theoretically), but still only shades of gray.  To get all possible 
> *colors* it would be necessary to change the red/green/blue values 
> independently, and that's not a linear change.

  The original poster didn't ask for all possible colors, he just asked
for 65536 colors, and 65536 shades of gray (or red, or whatever) is
exactly that, technically speaking.

<nitpicking>
  Besides, 65536 colors are not "all possible colors" (at least not all
possible colors representable with 24-bit rgb).
</nitpicking>

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