Literally decades of trying to explain this to people and yet Google suggests that this is very thread is the first significant time that the pixel-art term "pi

Literally decades of trying to explain this to people and yet Google suggests that this is very thread is the first significant time that the pixel-art term "pillow shading" has been explicitly linked to the acronym "VGA". That's weird because it's the defining characteristic of the cheap art of the VGA era. Epic Games was big into pillow shading. Jill of the Jungle, Solar Winds, Jazz Jackrabbit... They'd define seven hues, 8 shades of each hue, reserve the last 8 shades for monochrome, and then just paint things in from the side of the object. The pillow-shading aesthetic stuck after we moved on to 16.7 million colors and there was no reason to think about color that way anymore. A frustrating legacy.