retroremakes
January 18th, 2010, 06:20
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_crayons_big1.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/crayons_big1.png)I love this timeline, showing the evolution of Crayola's crayons from 1903—eight colors, including poop—to 120 colors today. Now, imagine PC graphics running on Crayola's Law, which states that the number of hues doubles every 28 years:
Let's take the Color/Graphics Adapter as a starting point. Introduced in 1981, the IBM CGA was capable of displaying four colors in 320 x 240 pixels. Back then, it was all black, cyan, magenta, and white, or black, red, brown, and green. The world looked really bad.
The EGA era—16 colors!—would have arrived in 2037. Fast forward to 2149, and witness the arrival of humans to Jupiter, and the Video Graphics Adapter, bringing 256 glorious colors in 320 x 240 pixels. 16-bit color mode and its palette of 65,536 shades would have been enjoyed in 2373.
What about our current 16,777,216-tone palette, 24-bit RGB color system? Not until the year 2597, people. Terrifying. But then again, our computers would have smelt like kindergarden forever, which is not a bad tradeoff. [Weathersealed (http://www.weathersealed.com/2010/01/15/color-me-a-dinosaur/)]
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Let's take the Color/Graphics Adapter as a starting point. Introduced in 1981, the IBM CGA was capable of displaying four colors in 320 x 240 pixels. Back then, it was all black, cyan, magenta, and white, or black, red, brown, and green. The world looked really bad.
The EGA era—16 colors!—would have arrived in 2037. Fast forward to 2149, and witness the arrival of humans to Jupiter, and the Video Graphics Adapter, bringing 256 glorious colors in 320 x 240 pixels. 16-bit color mode and its palette of 65,536 shades would have been enjoyed in 2373.
What about our current 16,777,216-tone palette, 24-bit RGB color system? Not until the year 2597, people. Terrifying. But then again, our computers would have smelt like kindergarden forever, which is not a bad tradeoff. [Weathersealed (http://www.weathersealed.com/2010/01/15/color-me-a-dinosaur/)]
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