What, precisely, is the difference between 16 and 32 bit color? I can't tell the difference between the two!

16-bit has 65,536 colors and 32-bit has 16,777,216 colors. So the difference is 16,711,680 colors.

Heh, interesting way to answer the question Geeman. Are all Finnish people crazy or is just the ones on the LFS forum?

Technically, 24-bit is 16,777,216 colours, since that's 2^8 per channel, cubed for RGB. With 32-bit colour, the other 8 bits give 256 alpha levels or something. But you'd be correct that you don't get 4,294,967,296 colours.

Again I know 15-bit colour is (2^5)^3, giving 32,768 colours, 16-bit colour only doubles green to 6 bits so is a bit weird really, but anyway arrives with the 65,536 colours.

Blacksheep - in a nutshell, improved colour accuracy.

thank you bob.(man my old comp couldnt even do 16bit?)