16-Bit Color, in computer graphics, is also known as High Color. High Color is considered sufficient to provide life like colors, and is encoded using either 15 or 16 Bits. 15-bit encoding uses 5 bits to represent red, 5 for green, and 5 for blue. Since 25 is 32, there are 32 levels of each color, which can be combined to give a total of 32,768 (32 × 32 × 32) mixed colors. 16-bit color uses 5 bits to represent red, 5 bits to represent blue, but (since the human eye is more sensitive to the color green) uses 6 bits to represent 64 levels of green. These can then be combined to give 65,536 (32 × 64 × 32) mixed colors. 16-Bit Color on the Macintosh is referred to as thousands of colors.
Top Reasons To Wipe Away Your Internet History
- Information about all the web sites you have visited is stored on your computer!
- Every image you have ever viewed, sent or received over the Internet is stored on your system!
- There is a record of every program that you have ever downloaded or used on your hard drive!
- Pressing the delete button and emptying the recycle bin does NOT completely delete your files!
- Cleaning your History Files improves the speed of your computer and frees valuable disk space!
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