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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:41:21 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199803281841.KAA16614@adit.ap.net>
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To: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: transparent Color

At 12:40  3/23/1998 +0000, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
>Jason Dagit writes:
>>Could you define "bright pink" a little bit (no pun intended) better? 
>
>I don't want to go into too verbose an explanation, because there are
>many different functions that use masked drawing modes and I'd rather
>not have a huge mass of text explaining each one. Do you think people
>would understand better if I called it magenta instead of pink? Strictly
>speaking the secondary colors are yellow, cyan, and magenta, so it isn't
>100% correct to call it pink at all, but I thought (foolishly? :-) that
>more people would understand pink than magenta...

Perhaps you ought to explain that it's (max blue, max red, 0 green)?

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net



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