Annon Inglorion
2025-02-28
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Today's featured page:
Micropal is a design that combines 8-bit color values with a small lookup table to enable 12-bit RGB colors (4 bits each for red, green and blue). Traditionally, graphics hardware that uses color lookup tables has used the color value purely as an index into the lookup table, with the lookup table providing all the actual RGB bits. Micropal instead uses the 8-bit color value to provide the least significant RGB bits, with the lookup table providing only the 4 most significant bits. This reduces the required hardware to extend color capability beyond fixed 256-color palettes, at the cost of not being able to freely choose all the RGB bits.
