> > On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 02:34:31AM +0800, k e c h i e wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > > > > I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG > > > files, viewed with xv. > > > > Try doin' some gradients in GIMP. > > Or some povray pictures. You can detect distinct stripes in 16bpp but none > in 24bpp. Everything above 24bpp (32bpp) would be insane. It's nice there is > at least one thing that doesn't need to be improved in the computer world :)
I understood that 32 bit graphics mode have 24 color, and 8 bit transparancy levels. So this may be useful for something after all... Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
