• over_clox@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        No shit, monochrome means the pixel is either on or off.

        The GameBoy had 4 shading levels…

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          3 months ago

          A monochrome or monochromatic image, object or palette is composed of one color (or values of one color).

          In computing, monochrome has two meanings:

          • it may mean having one color which is either on or off (also known as a binary image),
          • allowing shades of that color.
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            3 months ago

            Man this thread has been excellent to read. Felt like watching a funny man / straight man skit. Props for bringing it home and doing the work.

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            3 months ago

            In graphics programming, we don’t use such terms arbitrarily. Mono=1, plain and simple.

            The original Macintosh was proper monochrome, either pixel on or pixel off, a true ‘binary image’ as your definition states.

            You ever try reading or writing graphics software? Nowhere in our code will you ever see anything besides 1 bit per pixel referred to as monochrome.

            What the GameBoy has is 2 bits per pixel, which means its a paletted image, and looking past the puke green color of the screen, is otherwise considered a crude form of greyscale, not monochrome.