> which means > that you have to multiply by 3 to get the number of colors > possible It's actually to the third power...as in, 8 bit RGB (8 bits per color) is ((2**8)**3) or 16,777,216, which is the same as 2**24th... Good catch... I slipped there... JR Geoffrion Chicago, IL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Dynamic range and bit depth. How they relate.
2001-09-29 by JR Geoffrion