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Chapter 9

Palettes (DFP API)


9.1 Chapter Overview

This chapter describes the routines available for storing and retrieving 8-bit palettes. An 8-bit palette is a look-up table with 256 entries, one entry for each of the 256 possible pixel values the system hardware associates with a particular color. This chapter introduces and describes the HDF palette data model and the DFP interface.



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