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BITS PER PIXEL

Specialty Definition: BITS PER PIXEL

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Computing

Bits per pixel (bpp) The number of bits of information stored per pixel of an image or displayed by a graphics adapter. The more bits there are, the more colours can be represented, but the more memory is required to store or display the image. A colour can be described by the intensities of red, green and blue (RGB) components. Allowing 8 bits (1 byte) per component (24 bits per pixel) gives 256 levels for each component and over 16 million different colours - more than the human eye can distinguish. Microsoft Windows [and others?] calls this truecolour. An image of 1024x768 with 24 bpp requires over 2 MB of memory. "High colour" uses 16 bpp (or 15 bpp), 5 bits for blue, 5 bits for red and 6 bits for green. This reduced colour precision gives a slight loss of image quality at a 1/3 saving on memory. Standard VGA uses a palette of 16 colours (4 bpp), each colour in the palette is 24 bit. Standard SVGA uses a palette of 256 colours (8 bpp). Some graphics hardware and software support 32-bit colour depths, including an 8-bit "alpha channel" for transparency effects. (1999-08-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BITS PER PIXEL

Specialty definitions using "BITS PER PIXEL": bit plane, bpp, broadcast quality videocolour deptheXtended Graphics Arrayhigh colourJoint Bi-level Image Experts Grouptarga. (references)

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Anagrams: BITS PER PIXEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-i-l-p-p-r-s-t-x"

-3 letters: liberties, rippliest, triplexes.

-4 letters: epistler, expiries, lippiest, peltries, perlites, preexist, presplit, reptiles, ripplets, slippier, stippler, tipplers, trilbies.

-5 letters: beliers, belters, blister, bristle, elixirs, epistle, experts, expires, leister, lippers, lippier, pelites, pelters, perlite, perplex, pestier, petrels, pieties, pipiest, pitiers, prexies, replies, reptile, respelt, respite, resplit, retiles, riblets, ripples, ripplet, risible, sextile, siltier, slipper, spelter.

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Alternative Orthography: BITS PER PIXEL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 54 53      50 45 52      50 49 58 45 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01010100 01010011 00100000 01010000 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010000 01001001 01011000 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#84 &#83 &#32 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#80 &#73 &#88 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0054 0053      0050 0045 0052      0050 0049 0058 0045 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36435453250395225043583946

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