From: xmerm05 AT vse DOT cz (Michal Mertl)
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Subject: Re: 16bpp pixels (now: 32bpp pixels)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 09:50:57 GMT
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:

>8 Alpha, 8R, 8G, 8B...huh? Alpha? What the heck is that, infrared? The
>human eye only sees three wavelengths, red, green, and blue. There is no
>fourth I am aware of. (That's cones; rod cells only return brightness, no
>color info at all.) What good is it, making your computer control your TV and
>VCR? :)

AFAIK Alpha channel means some kind of transparency info and is not 
suppported by any PC graphics card I know so this byte acts only like 
padding then.
Michal 'MiMe' Mertl
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