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Millions of colors is most likely 8bit color with 16.7 million colors. Still in use today. 7 bit color would also count as "millions of colors", but I don't re
by phire 6y ago
Millions of colors is most likely 8bit color with 16.7 million colors. Still in use today.
7 bit color would also count as "millions of colors", but I don't remember any GPU ever offering it as a display mode.
- tyingq 6y agoUnless I'm missing something (dithering?), 24bit color is 16.7M. 8 bit color is 256 colors, 7 is 128 colors.
- meditative 6y agoyou're correct. I assume they're referring to 8bit per colour (RGB) which is 24bit colour (True Colour) 16.7M
- mixmastamyk 6y ago8*3=24, 8 bit per channel is a description they use in visual effects. Recently the rest of the computing industry started using it. Yes, confusing.
- tyingq 6y agoAh, okay. I'm using old terminology I guess. Appreciate the gentle pointer.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoI asked the same question on starting a vfx job many years back. 8-bit, 256 colors for a feature film? Impossible, that would make it look like .gif or Windows95, right?