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Old 01-06-2008, 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Angel_Light View Post
ON the 8 bit standards though, I though 24bit cant have since 8 bits are for each Color (Red, Green, Blue) and an additional 8 bits for alpha which would make it 32 bit, am I correct or am I missing something?
Varying bit-depths are not static, they're logarithmic. Each color (RGB) doesn't occupy entire an octet, they occupy a entry in the bit set.

Bit....07..06..05..04 03..02..01..00
Data...R....R...R...G...G...G....B...B
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