VREngine/SMD Series Users Manual
RealVision Inc.
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5.2.1. Color/Palette
settings
Fig. 25
Color/Palette settings for grayscale monitors
Lists a selection of palettes suitable for the installed monitor. The full list of available
modes is as follows.
8-bit linear grayscale palette
256 shades of gray (the default).
8-bit non-linear grayscale palette
Reserves the first and last 10 entries for the system palette, and makes a
linear palette of the remaining 236 entries.
8-bit dynamic grayscale palette
Allows the palette to be dynamically controlled by other programs.
8-/16-/24-bit color
The standard windows color quality Highest (32 bit) and Medium (16 bit)
settings are available in the Display Properties dialog.
10-bit grayscale
1024 shades of gray.
24-bit color conversion grayscale
In this mode VREngine/SMD board displays monitor(s) allows the Operating
System to output 24-bit color as normal, and down-samples it to 1024 levels of
gray for display.
30-bit color
1024 shades for each of RGB; 1,073,741,824 colors in total.
