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| | Color depth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Color depth is a computer graphics term describing the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. | | | In graphics intensive applications such as computer games, a tradeoff of performance and quality can be achieved by raising or lowering the color depth of the display; graphics with lower color depths do not require as much frame buffer memory or display bandwidth, allowing them to be generated and displayed more quickly. | | | With relatively low color depth, the stored value is typically an index into a color map or palette. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth
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| | Color Depth - Graphics |
| | Color "depth" is defined by the number of bits per pixel that can be displayed on a computer screen. | | | This type of color is known as "Indexed Color" because colors in the palette are referenced by index numbers which are used by the computer to identify each color. | | | The GIF format is one such format and has a color depth of 8 bits per pixel or less. |
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| | Color depth is sometimes referred to as bit depth because it is directly related to the number of bits used for each pixel. | | | color depth — Color depth is the number of distinct colors that can be represented by a piece of hardware or software. | | | depth — Depth is a part that is far from the outside or surface, also the middle or innermost part. |
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| | Take a look at color depth |
| | Color depth is important in two respects when working with graphics: the color depth of your monitor, and the color depth of the files you use to store your images. | | | Monitor color depth depends on the capacity your display hardware supports and how the software drivers are configured. | | | File color depth depends on the file format that you use to store your graphics. |
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http://builder.com.com/5100-31-5075830.html
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| | Monitor Resolution and Color Depth |
| | Resolution and color depth are usually adjusted with the software driver that works with the computer's operating system through the graphics adapter card. | | | Color depth is usually talked about in bits. | | | Resolution and color depth are intimately tied together in a monitor's display. |
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http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/MON_RES.HTM
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| | Test Color Depth |
| | The amount of color associated with each pixel on your computer monitor is called color depth. | | | Color depth can range from 1-bit of information (monochrome) to 24- or 32-bits of information (millions of colors). | | | The table below allows you to check the color depth setting of your computer. |
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http://www.labtrain.noaa.gov/config/test_color.htm
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| | GRAPHICS: Color displays |
| | The terminology and memory schemes used in color displays are directly analogous to those used to describe color depth in graphics files. | | | In 8-bit images the 256 colors that make up the image are stored in an array called a "palette" or an "index." The color palette may also be referred to as a "color lookup table" (CLUT). | | | In the simplest form of black-and-white computer displays, a single bit of memory is assigned to each pixel. |
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http://www.webstyleguide.com/graphics/displays.html
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| | Color Depth and Color Spaces — Information Technology Services — CSB/SJU |
| | Color Depth is the number of available colors in a graphic image, represented either as the number of bits per color, or as the number of possible colors in the image's palette. | | | This information can be encoded using one bit of computer memory. | | | This is sometimes referred to as an "RGB color triplet." Each component has a value in the range of 0 to 255. |
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http://www.csbsju.edu/itservices/teaching/c_space/colors.htm
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| | Highcolour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Highcolor (or Hicolour, Highcolour, Hicolor, Thousands on a Macintosh) graphics is a method of storing image information in a computer's memory such that each pixel is represented by two bytes. | | | In 15 bit highcolour, one of the bits of the two bytes is ignored, and the remaining 15 bits are split between the red, green, and blue components of the final colour, like this: | | | There is a problem with doing this because the green channel can have a different value than the other two. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highcolour
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| | VisiBone - Frequently Asked Questions |
| | Although 24-bit color depth computers are clearly increasing, so are 1-bit: monochrome cell-phone browsers. | | | Many computers at that time could only display 256 colors at a time. | | | Bad software and other forms of unfinished technology require such athletic use of the left brain (logic) that the right brain (intuition) is drowned out, beaten to the background, chased back into her shadowed dungeon. |
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http://www.visibone.com/color/faq.html
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| | Color Depth - Bits per Pixel |
| | The amount of color information in a picture is usually referred to as the color depth or the number of bits per pixel. | | | For a given picture size, the bigger the color depth, the more colors that can be represented and the more memory and file storage space that the image will require. | | | The computer converts this "on-off" data into color information. |
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http://www.lighthousephotorepair.com/Present12Feb2001/Present01.html
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| | Dynamic range, 24 bit vs 36 bit |
| | 24 bit color is three 8-bit bytes, one byte for each of the Red, Green, and Blue CCD channels, to describe the color of each pixel in the image. | | | In binary numbers, each bit is a power of 2, meaning that each additional bit doubles the maximum size of the numbers that can be stored. | | | The first thing to remember is that bit depth and dynamic range are NOT the same thing. |
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http://www.scantips.com/basics14.html
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| | Webmonkey: design: Death of the Websafe Color Palette? |
| | 256 color support, or color "depth," is also known as 8-bit color because it is 2 raised to the power of 8 (2 being the basic unit that computers use to store information -- a single bit). | | | If your machine is running at 24-bit depth, it can display 16,777,216 colors, which is convenient since that's also the number of all the possible colors (as we calculated before). | | | The browsers that had problems with displaying color at 16-bit color depth tried to, as it were, choose both 1.9 and 2.1 simultaneously. |
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http://www.webmonkey.com/templates/print_template.htmlt?meta=/webmonkey/00/37/index2a_meta.html
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| | WEBalley - design - palettes |
| | The computer replaces colors it cannot display with the one closest to it. | | | A lot of computers still use 256 color screens. | | | A lot of computers can only display a limited number of colors, mostly 256. |
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http://www.weballey.net/webdesign/palettes.html
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| | Color Depth Issues |
| | When users are running at 256, AutoEye will not run because the color depth is to "shallow". | | | AutoEye has a minimum system requirement that states that you must be running a color depth of at least 16-bit color (or thousands). | | | To fix this you should change your color depth to at least 16-bit color (or thousands). |
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http://www.autofx.com/techsupport/AutoEye/colordepthm.html
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| | Changing Color depth |
| | Unfortunately, color depth can not be changed in real time under Xfree86 as it can in the Windows OS. | | | MEPIS Linux uses a 16bit color depth for it's desktop, and forget running Doom 3 until that is changed. | | | Many Linux users don't know or realize what color depth their desktop is in, nor does it really matter. |
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http://www.mepisguides.com/color/color.html
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| | Color Depth |
| | To a computer, numbers are stored as a collection of 1's and 0's - also known as binary digits or bits. | | | A bitmap with a color depth of 1 bit can only be a pure black and white picture. | | | All color information in a bitmap is stored numerically. |
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| | This places the depth data in the color channels and the stencil data in the alpha channel. | | | On many PC platforms, it is common, for example, to have 24 bits of depth, 8 bits of stencil, and 8 bits of red, green, blue, and alpha. | | | Overview Some applications, especially systems for distributed OpenGL rendering, would like to have a fast way of copying their depth buffer into a color buffer; for example, this allows the depth buffer to be scanned out, allowing downstream compositing operations. |
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http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/registry/NV/copy_depth_to_color.txt
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| | accelenation.com |
| | In 16-bit format it will appear banded, but at a color depth of 24-bits or more it will appear perfectly smooth (which is how it should appear for the purposes of this article). | | | When people refer to the ‘color depth’ of an image they are normally talking about the color depth within the frame-buffer (where the final image is stored) and this typically contains only 16 or 24-bits of color information. | | | Although it’s true that 32-bit color modes are available in 'high-end' publishing environments (2D), as yet, there are NO graphics cards that can produce 32-bit color in 3D games (and that includes the G400 and TNT2). |
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http://www.accelenation.com/?doc=146
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| | Changing Color/Bit Depth |
| | We discussed the significance of bit depth in the Color/Bit Depth and Image Resolution section of the Graphics Basics lesson. | | | Reducing an image's color depth can result in a significant reduction in overall file size. | | | To change the color depth of an RGB image in Photoshop, follow these steps: |
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http://www.adobe.com/education/webtech/unit_graphics1/pcb_color_depth.htm
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| | The Arithmetic of Color Depth |
| | How many colors there are in an image, or how many a system can display is referred to as color depth, pixel-depth, or bit depth. | | | Enter any bits per pixel from the table of color depths (on line 7 and following) on this line. | | | Some cameras and scanners will use 30 or 36 bits per pixel. |
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http://www.shortcourses.com/pixels/colordepth.htm
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| | Cyberglitz |
| | The term "Bit Depth" refers to a scale of how many bits it takes for your computer to internally specify (name in ones and zeroes) a particular color as distinct from every other color possible in a picture. | | | A Color Palette is accessed via a Color LookUp Table (CLUT) by simply numbering the colors in the palette from 0 on up. | | | When I saved it as a GIF, I was able to reduce the bit depth to 2 (all it needs) and the file size became 237 bytes. |
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http://www.cyberglitz.com/primer.htm
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| | Digital Image Considerations |
| | The standard computer monitor is 72 pixels.The number of possible colors each pixel can represent is the dynamic range, or depth of color, of the image. | | | There are several considerations that need to be balanced when producing digital images: resolution, depth of color, and file size. | | | Resolution + Depth of Color = File Size |
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http://ar.utmb.edu/areas/classes/htgwebdigitalimageconsiderchild.asp
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| | General Tutorials--Color |
| | Indexed color is similar to RGB and might be considered a subset of it. | | | The main difference is that CMYK is used to describe colors when discussing printing and RGB is for describing colors for screen-based display such as your computer monitor or television set. | | | You may or may not have access to all of these colors depending on a number of software and hardware related factors. |
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http://www.grafx-design.com/03gen00.html
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| | Digital Imaging: Introduction (Microscopy & Imaging, Cellular Imaging Core, SWEHSC) |
| | Each pixel in a digital image has a bit-depth value, which informs the computer which color (or shade of gray) the pixel will display (the greater the bit-depth value, the more colors/grays to choose from). | | | Images with only two colors are binary, the pixels are either black or white. | | | There are a large number of available file formats for storing digital images. |
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http://swehsc.pharmacy.arizona.edu/exppath/micro/digimageintro.html
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| | Victor Engel's No Dither Netscape Color Palette, The Browser Safe Palette |
| | If you are interested rather in learning how to change your computer to display more than 256 colors, see my page on color depth. | | | Many people refer to this generic palette as the Netscape palette because Netscape uses this palette on 8 bit systems, and Netscape is particularly sensitive to problems relating to the use of this palette. | | | Netscape seems to be less flexible, however, in that additional colors (beyond the 216) are not used on Windows systems. |
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http://the-light.com/netcol.html
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| | Video boards and Modes |
| | The video board requires 3 bytes of video memory per pixel for 24 bit color, or 4 bytes for 32 bit video. | | | 16 bit color is 5 bits of each Red, Green and Blue packed into one 16 bit word (2 bytes per pixel). | | | Even if 16 bit mode measures a bit faster, today's computers are so fast that it is imperceptible to humans. |
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http://www.scantips.com/basics11.html
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| | Depth-Measuring Microscope has color viewing system., Titan Tool Supply Co., Inc. |
| | The Model ZDM is said to rely on a high magnification microscope of 100, 200 or 400X with a very shallow depth of field. | | | Applications include depth measurements of lead wire bondings, solder lead heights, cracks, engraving depths of plastic molds, depth grooves of computer discs, and scoring depths on metal products. | | | The desired accuracy of the depth measurement determines the magnification used. |
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http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/7788
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| | Changing Color Depth On Your Monitor |
| | Your computer is using the 256 colors specified by the image for everything. | | | Changing color depth is possible if you have a monitor and/or video card capable of handling multiple color depths and resolutions. | | | You might think that using a lower bit depth would make a movie's frame rate faster, since the computer is moving less data around. |
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http://www.kan.org/misc/monitors.html
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| | Optimizing Animated GIFs / Minimizing Color Palettes - webreference.com |
| | The SuperPalette is a proprietary file format by Equilibrium that polls colors in a series of files and uses the most common colors to create an optimum global palette. | | | GIF file size is directly related to bit depth, and decreases dramatically when you reduce by two bits or more. | | | It's a good idea to use these colors in your animations, but this isn't always possible. |
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http://www.webreference.com/dev/gifanim/palette.html
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| | Screen Properties: Color Bit Depth - Doc JavaScript |
| | Adjusting it to a higher number of colors slowed down the computer, despite the screaming Pentium processor. | | | Since the computer came with a 17-inch monitor, I had to compromise for only 256 colors. | | | For example, you can create two versions of an image -- one with an 8-bit palette (8bit.gif), and the other one with a 16-bit palette (16bit.gif). |
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http://www.webreference.com/js/column17/colordepth.html
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| | How do I how do you increase color depth from 24 to 32 bit (redhat 8.0) - LinuxQuestions.org |
| | i went to xdisplay and noticed that the maximum color depth is still 24bit video card sumary indicates that the current vidcard is NVIDIA GeForce 2MX (generic), memory size is 64megs driver is nvidia. | | | I do not now if installing this package was the write thing to do and i have seen no changes to my system post that action. | | | grrr wine/counter strike please change color depth to 16 bit |
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=384700
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| | Color Depth |
| | There are many color depth choices for the flatbed scanner and very few for the slide scanner. | | | Appropriate for GIF and low-end computer screen presentations only | | | Appropriate for JPEG, GIF, high and low-end computer screen use, and printing purposes |
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http://www.santarosa.edu/~mmcginni/art18/scanning/colordepth.html
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| | David Kline : How To Get The Display's Color Depth using NetCF Version 1 |
| | The full.NET Framework also does not provide color depth in v1.x (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWindowsFormsScreenClassBoundsTopic.asp). | | | // get the color depth (bits per pixel) | | | David Kline : How To Get The Display's Color Depth using NetCF Version 1 |
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http://blogs.msdn.com/davidklinems/archive/2005/02/02/366042.aspx
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| | Capture By George! is the screen capture utility designed with love |
| | The format is identified by the three letter extension at the end of the file name. | | | Unlike graphics programmers, these users don't need to know the details of how GIF, TIFF, and PNG files are constructed. | | | Whatever your graphics needs, you'll find the new Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats an invaluable aid -- packed with information, constantly up-to-date, and fun to use. |
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http://www.print-screen.com/resources.shtml
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| | "Stop 0x0000001E" Error Message After Changing Color Depth |
| | When you change the color depth from High Color (16-bit) to True Color (24-bit) on your Windows 2000-based computer while the DVD player is open, you may receive a "Stop 0x0000001E" error message on a blue screen. | | | "Stop 0x0000001E" Error Message After Changing Color Depth | | | To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. |
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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q260/9/82.ASP
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| | CMG: Media > News > 2006 Consumer Color Directions |
| | Reddened oranges will replace coppery hues; yellows will gain importance; blues will dramatically recede; and complex neutrals will add sophistication and luxury to the 2006 Consumer Color Palette. | | | - High chroma and low value in this violet to black magic color harken to our changing atmosphere. | | | Color Designers are professionals who enhance the function, salability and/or quality of a product through their knowledge and appropriate application of color. |
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http://www.colormarketing.org/media/news/2006_consumer_col_dir.htm
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| | Hyperionics Forums - About Color Depth & the White Color |
| | The Resize button on the drawing toolbar works now also more as expected. | | | It is best to do all the editing in 24 or 32 bit color mode, then only change color resolution to 8, 4 or 1 bit per pixel when all drawing and other changes are finished. | | | When I change the color depth down to 1, the white color and the foreground/background color (if it is white) will turn to 128,0,0. |
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http://www.hyperionics.com/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1797
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| | Howstuffworks "How Computer Monitors Work" |
| | Just look at the advances made by IBM over the course of a decade: | | | In 1981, IBM introduced the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), which was capable of rendering four colors, and had a maximum resolution of 320 pixels horizontally by 200 pixels vertically. | | | EGA allowed up to 16 different colors and increased the resolution to 640x350 pixels, improving the appearance of the display and making it easier to read text. |
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http://computer.howstuffworks.com/monitor7.htm
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| | Color Depth |
| | While I may have photoshop at my disposal, and a half decent monitor (which is probably miscalibrated in ways I don't know about), I am perfectly aware that many people have less than decent monitors to work with, which is why I tossed out my suggestion on a simple method of calibration. | | | This also is the best reason not to bother with PNG: Many if not most would not be able to tell the difference between it and JPEG. | | | Which is not to say I think that people should have a top of the line monitor to view images, just that there might be simple adjustments that could be made to bring things closer to what might be considered real color. |
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| | Dithering & Decreasing Color Depth |
| | This is not to say you should use dithering and 8 bit gifs for your webpages, but if the need arises, it is an option. | | | Color depth decreased using Xcolors, with the color option set to 50 | | | If you don't care for the results, or if it's too dithered repeat the process, increasing the number of colors you type into the box and 'testing' until you're satisfied with the results. |
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http://www.psptips.com/5/4web/dithering.html
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| | FastRes - Quickly Change Your Resolution & Color Depth |
| | lets you quickly change your screen’s resolution and color depth, from the system tray. | | | FastRes - Quickly Change Your Resolution & Color Depth | | | It is small, and takes up very little memory. |
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http://www.southbaypc.com/FastRes
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| | Color Diamond Encyclopedia |
| | Learn plenty about the natural color diamond's provenance, history and science. | | | Home : Gemological Education : Color Diamond Encyclopedia |
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