Someone probably read too much Iain M. Banks and decided to adopt Marain's base-9 system :) If I'm not mistaken, some old consoles used a 9-bit RGB encoding, s

Someone probably read too much Iain M. Banks and decided to adopt Marain's base-9 system :) If I'm not mistaken, some old consoles used a 9-bit RGB encoding, so this could theoretically help there. Minecraft also uses a 9-bit system for Redstone, afaik.