POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Display Problem : Re: Display Problem Server Time
16 Nov 2024 05:19:48 EST (-0500)
  Re: Display Problem  
From: Lewis Sellers
Date: 5 Oct 1998 23:51:08
Message: <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). In 15bit you have 32768 colours
out of a pallete of only 32768 and in 16bit you have 65536 colours out
of 65536. This means you have a smaller palette with 16bit than in 8bit.
:) In other words, you have a relatively limited palette in 16bit
compared to even 8bit. Even more so compared to 16,777,216 in truecolor
24bit mode.
--min


>                                  Sirrus
> 
> PS. I know that this has more to do with video cards than Povray, but I
> like you guys better. :)

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