Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff....

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On Saturday 17 July 2010, George Nakos wrote:
> Saturday, July 17, 2010, 5:18:02 AM, you wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> 
wrote:
> >> .. For example GIF format doesn't even support more than 8-bits
> >> and it can be used for huge background patterns.
> >
> > actually you can generate valid GIF format images with 16 million
> > (24/32bit) colors using PHP and GD2, even though it is not an official
> > definition (of the GIF format).
>
> Wrong. Take a look at this: http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html

According to this only 256 colors can be used per image block although
the amount of colors in the whole image can be larger.  But the page also
says that most (image creation) programs don't support more colors for
gifs and that it's impractical to use them.

So I don't think they're common on the www-pages and a browser, especially
for something like Atari machines where performance and memory usage is
more important, could treat & store them as 8-bit...


	- Eero