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  <H2><A NAME="2"></A>2. Terminology </H2>

<p>In the rest of this document, "8bpp" is short for "8 bits per pixel", which
means a 256-color mode. Similarly, 15bpp refers to 32768 colors, 16bpp to
65536 colors , 24bpp to a "packed" 16 million color mode, and 32bpp to a
"sparse" 16 million color mode (at 32bpp, only 24 of the 32 bits are
actually used, hence the "sparse").</p>
<p>15bpp is only used here to differentiate it from 16bpp, but they are both
normally referred to as 16bpp. 15bpp is actually 16bpp with a 5-5-5 color
weight (wasting one bit per pixel), while 16bpp is, well, 16bpp, with 5-6-5
color weight.</p>

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