8bits of gray?

[Electric Monk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_palettes
(this is actually pretty interesting reading, if you want to understand some about shades and hues of colors used in the history of computers)


/you may now return to your regularly scheduled food fight

[hunter]

1. I was always intrigued with the two color Technicolor process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor

I played around some with 8 bit equivalents.

Something like this:



(Hmm, my quick and dirty conversion of the wikipedia image got a little squirrelly. I was lazy and didn't want to go searching for my old palettes.)

It's not a straightforward conversion from three color RGB images; ideally you'd have two-color cameras and two-color monitors. I recall someone patented a novel two-color monitor, in ambers and blue-greens, and it didn't use a shadow mask like conventional color CRT computer monitors. I never saw them for sale commercially.

I mostly use my computers for writing, so my preferred monitor was monochrome well into the era of 800X600 80Hz VGA "multisych" color. I kept a color monitor off to the side. My kids played games on it.

[Electric Monk]

2. Interesting. So, it had no real yellow or blue in the pallette.

I hadn't really thought of that before, but I can see it now.