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20060223: colors

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  • Subject: 20060223: colors
  • Date: 23 Feb 2006 10:55:42 -0700
In addition to the satellite and graphic banks that David mentioned,
there are also radar and fax.

Default color banks defined in colors.h are:
95 satellite colors
20 radar colors
33 graphic colors
2 Fax colors

The maximum number of colors in a table is 256 which is compatible
with 8 bit color.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:25, David Ovens wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> Actually you can have 95 levels of enhancement for "satellite" imagery
> and the other 33 of (128-bit color) are 1 for background and 32 for
> the lines and colors of overlays.
> 
> David