1. Palette's
- Posted by Mathew Hounsell <mat.hounsell at MAILEXCITE.COM>
Nov 05, 1998
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Last edited Nov 06, 1998
Irv,
There is a standard palette across IBM (CLONE) BIOSES.
The first 16 are the CGA standard 16 colour.
The next 16 are 16 colour grey scale.
Then it's
power( 3, floor( log to base 3 of 256 ) )
colours chosen to give the maximum variety of colours.
The rest are usually white so as to show they're of no importance. If you
need unique colours that's a good place to put them.
However Mighty Microsoft decided that it wanted a different default palette
for windows so it made one.
The macintosh's 16 colour palette is far better than CGA and might be good
to look at.
I decided to make my own palette and leave the last 64 free to play with as
a dynamic palette, but since in euphoria palette manipulation is one or all
I haven't used it. It is std CGA, grey, red, yellow, green, cyan, blue,
magenta, brown (16 colours each) then red to red transition.
If you want to mess with a palette get the texture maker out of the
archives, it makes it transitions simpler.
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Mathew Hounsell
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2. Re: Palette's
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:18:35 PST, Mathew Hounsell <mat.hounsell at
MAILEXCITE.COM> wrote:
>Irv,
>
>There is a standard palette across IBM (CLONE) BIOSES.
>The first 16 are the CGA standard 16 colour.
>The next 16 are 16 colour grey scale.
>Then it's
>power( 3, floor( log to base 3 of 256 ) )
Cool. I've been wondering if there was a _plan_ to those things!
>However Mighty Microsoft decided that it wanted a different default palette
>for windows so it made one.
Of course.
>I decided to make my own palette and leave the last 64 free to play with as
>a dynamic palette, but since in euphoria palette manipulation is one or all
>I haven't used it.
?I don't understand the one or all... I have been setting the last
32 colors to shades of blue to make a neat gradated title-bar,
without changing any of the others.
Regards,
Irv
