macdonald@author.dec.com (Quadrapi for sale.) (10/14/86)
I understand that there are 4,096 colors available on the Amiga. The Reference Manual I have indicates that 0 is the darkest and 4,096 is the brightest. Is it true that every available color can be associated with a number from 0 to 4096 or 000 to fff (hex)? Are there any pd programs to display the different colors and their associated values from 0 to 4096? I am looking for an easy way to set colors in Dave Wecker VT100 initfile. Trial and error will take forever. Paul
dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (10/14/86)
>I understand that there are 4,096 colors available on the Amiga. >The Reference Manual I have indicates that 0 is the darkest and >4,096 is the brightest. Is it true that every available color can >be associated with a number from 0 to 4096 or 000 to fff (hex)? > >Are there any pd programs to display the different colors and their >associated values from 0 to 4096? I am looking for an easy way to >set colors in Dave Wecker VT100 initfile. Trial and error will take >forever. > >Paul The 4096 colors are generated by picking the level of Red, Green, and Blue for a given color. Each R, G, or B has 16 levels. Thus, 16 * 16 * 16 = 4096 colors, which convienently maps into three hex digits (read 'RGB'). The easiest way to pick colors it to simply use Preferences, then figure out each R, G, and B by looking at the poll position of the R, G, and B gadgets (very easy to count) -Matt
bill@dayton.UUCP (William T. Argyros) (10/16/86)
In article <8610142001.AA13210@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: >>I understand that there are 4,096 colors available on the Amiga. > The easiest way to pick colors it to simply use Preferences, then >figure out each R, G, and B by looking at the poll position of the >R, G, and B gadgets (very easy to count) > > -Matt The first version of DW's vt100 emulator contained within it a color editor like the one in preferences. This was by far the simplest way to do it. Too bad it was removed from later versions. I keep telling myself that I will put it back into V2.1, but I never seem to have the time (reading 40+ net.micro.amiga articles each day seem to take all the free time I have... :-) Dave, why did the color editor not make it into more recent versions? -- UUCP: ihnp4!rosevax!dayton!bill Bill Argyros ATT: (612) 375-2816 Dayton-Hudson Dept. Store. Co. 700 on the Mall Mpls, Mn. 55402