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What 16 Million Colors Looks Like…

By Boris
June 23, 2009
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I remember working on a 1bit monochrome Macintosh Plus back in 1991 and wondering what it would be to have 16 grades of grey. Now, I can have 16 million colors, in one blog post! To enjoy the full glory of 16 million colors click this image so you can see the 4096 x 4096 pixel version.

Go full screen, smoke a joint (only in Amsterdam!) and think about the scale of things for a moment. Snowflakes, the universe, butterflies, grains of sand, dinosaurs and the size of your ego. Breathe in. Breathe out. Can you feel it now?

What 16 Million Colors Looks Like...

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  • JPWisler
    Remember in the web to print products, it will most likely be printed on a 4 color press....so you may need to smoke 2 joints to get a similar effect..DAMN GREY SCALE
  • The only place where you can get the 16 million color image is the link in the comment above.

    Every other link takes you to another page or links to a small image.
  • I changed the link on the image to point to that working url. Thanks for the tip!
  • This one does contain 16 million colors:

    http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/img_png/16million...

    Could you verify that Boris?
  • Yes, counted every single pixel and found them all! Changed the link from the article to that image. Thanks!
  • Too bad the JPEG compression took away some color depth... Probably not 16 million colors ;)
  • Damn, you are right. Recounted them and didn't find more than 15 million. Bummer. ;-)
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