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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension board - multiple heads on a cube?
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.171544.5774@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <CRUM.90Sep19101315@alicudi.usc.edu> <276@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <550@wjh12.harvard.edu> <1990Sep24.084343.3794@agate.berkeley.edu> <50958@brunix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 17:15:44 GMT

In article <50958@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:
>Can you tell me what colors you want to look up that 24-bit color does
>not bring to a screen directly without a look-up?

Apart from the points that other people have raised -- animation and color
correction -- it is worth noting that 8 bits per color is not enough for
some fussy applications like remote-sensing work.
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