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From: dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae)
Subject: Re: Colour Palette on a ColorStation
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 01:52:38 GMT

In article <SPINNER.91Apr12100158@wpi.WPI.EDU> spinner@wpi.WPI.EDU (Bevan R S Wang) writes:
>
>	I need to know how many colours (the colour palette) is on the
>	NeXT ColorSystem.  I have called NeXT five times already and
>	I get a different answer every time.... so far I NeXT says:
>
>	It has a palette of 4096 and you can have 256 colours on the
>	screen at once.
>
>	It has a palette of 16.2 million and 256 colours at once.
>
>	It has a palette of 16.2 million with 4096 colours at once.
>
>
>	Now I doubt the last one, but the first sounds "dinky" and the
>	second sounds about right.
>
>	Any help will be appreciated....thanks in advance
>
>	Bevan Wang
>--

  Three Strikes! NeXTstation color is 16-bit color, with no (to my knowledge
color lookup tables), so you get 4096 colors plus transparency, and you don't
get any others. The 4096 colors are, as far as I know, hard coded/wired into
the system. You get all 4096 at once, and that's it. Now the NeXTdimension 
has all those 32 bits at once (but as someone else said you can't have any
more at once than the number of pixels you got on screen!). 
  With a base color system offering 4096 different on-screen colors, I'm not
gonna complain (even though I can't afford it...besides, I'd get a NeXTdim
first--save up my money. You'll want an OD of some sort for work with 32-bit
color (or even 16)).
  Happy painting!

  Nik
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