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Print2CAD OCR 2013- 107
Print2CAD
OCR 2013
17.2. Raster Image Color Depth
“Color depth or bit depth, is a computer graphics term describing the number of bits
used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmap image or video frame buffer. This
concept is also known as bits per pixel (bpp), particularly when specied along with the
number of bits used. Higher color depth gives a broader range of distinct colors.
Color depth is only one aspect of color representation expressing how nely levels of
color could be expressed (formally, gamut depth); the other aspect is how broad a range
of colors could be expressed. The RGB color model, as used below, cannot express many
colors, notably saturated colors such as yellow. Thus, the issue of color representation is
not simply a sufcient color depth but also broad enough gamut.”
Source: Wikipedia, subject “Color Depth”
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