Re: [DotGNU] MS standard (pnetlib)

[Aris Basic]

Ill try to avaoid my cents :) next time (havnt though about 4bit color 
representation at all :( )

Aris

Robert Lascelle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for all your comments.
>
> I'll look at the CSS spec. I'll look at the 4 bit RGB,
> i never heard of this before.
> Since CSS and the 4 to 8 bit conversion tells me to
> use #ff2233 from #f23, i'll make the change and "i'll
> get to bed less stupid tonight" (french expression).
>
> Thanks everyone for your time,
>
> Robert
>
> --- "Peter \"Firefly\" Lund" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Aris Basic wrote:
> >
> >
> > > hmm to me is not really logical to make f23 =
> >
> > ff2233 at the most 0f0203
> >
> > > but even that is stretching
> > > more likely f23 = f2 30 00 or 00 0f 23 :)
> >
> > It makes perfect sense.  "#f23" specifies an
> > RGB-triplet with 4 bits per 
> > channel and "#ff2233" specifies it with 8 bits per
> > channel.
> >
> > When converting from 4 bits per channel to 8 bits
> > per channel one 
> > multiplies each channel value not by 16 but by 17 in
> > order to cover the 
> > whole range properly (so F maps to FF instead of to
> > F0).
> >
> > -Peter
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