pseudo color and direct color

Brian Paul brian.paul at tungstengraphics.com
Tue May 17 06:27:02 PDT 2005


Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 5/16/05, Brian Paul <brian.paul at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> 
>>Jon Smirl wrote:
>>
>>>Pseudo color and direct color - neither of these are support in EGL, right?
>>>Everything is true color?
>>>
>>>8,16,24,32 true color are all allowed, just no palettes.
>>
>>EGL, as-is, has no notion of color index mode (PseudoColor).  It could
>>be easily added with a new extension if we need/want it.
> 
> 
> What about DirectColor? Is that grouped with PseudoColor?

DirectColor requires lookup tables for each of the R, G, B channels. 
We'd have to add functions for specifying those tables.  Similarly for 
PseudoColor.

-Brian


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