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Originally Posted by DNSB
I don't agree on the math -- the correct number of potential colours is given by 16x16x16 which does give the 4096 total number of colours. The colour range would be from 0x0000 to 0x0FFF.
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Yes, I realised after I posted that the math was wrong, but I don't think 16 x16 x 16 is quite right as one shade is black, one is "white" and the darkest colours and palest colours may be indistinguishable from darkest grey and brightest grey. There are 15 saturations of R, G, B, Yellow, Cyan, Magenta. Some will shift in apparent colour to olives or oranges etc.
I agree that programmatically there are 4096 distinct "Colours", including the greys and variations of brigtenesses and saturations. Most people can separate maybe over a million hues and a bigger range of brightness than any display. We are not having so much discernment on saturations, likely existing displays are better than our eye and the CRT, plasma and OLED 100% saturations mostly don't exist in nature / real life. LCDs use filters so can't manage as perfect saturations.