Re: 8 verses 16 bit

[John Henry Galindo <photo@xxxxxxx>]

on 3/2/02 8:38, David Chien at chiendh@uci.edu wrote:

> Basically, the more bits you have, the more colors you can reproduce or
> use within your files.
> 
> Because bits refer to the binary bits used in a computer, you can
> calculate the number of colors you have total under each system.
> 
> eg. 8 bits = 2^8 (2 raised to the power of 8) = 256 shades per color
> R, G, B (red, green, blue, the three colors used in emmissive display
> systems to create all other colors).
> 
> 256*256*256 (rgb) = 16 million colors
> 
> 16 bits = 2^16 = 65536 shades per R, G, B color
> 
> 65536^3 (rgb) = 281 trillion colors

<-snip->

David,

Thank you for a lucid, straightforward answer... really!

I also want to say thanks for not going into a verses versus versus thing.

Kind regards,

  ~John

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