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Greetings,
i am searching for a 256-color color table. Like if:

0x00 - black
0x01 - blue
0x02 - green

...etc, I'm searching the colors above 0x0F (15), because i have only 16 color table. Does anybody knows where I can find such a thing?

Thanks for your kind responses.

inflater

The Web Standard colours are available at:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp

Is that what you were looking for? I would think those would be fairly standard colours. Not to mention, can't you define the 256 colour palette yourself?

Hi,

inflater wrote:i am searching for a 256-color color table.

In 256 colour modes (by default) the first 16 colours are "CGA compatible" (black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, light grey, dark grey, light blue, light green, light cyan, light red, light magenta, yellow, white).

IIRC the next 16 colours are a grey scale ranging from black to white. After that I'm not so sure (it's a rainbow, but I don't remember the relationship betweeen value and colours).

The easiest way to find out is to display them on the screen and have a look at them.

A more practical way is to reprogram the colours to something you like, instead of having a strange mixture for backwards compatability. I usually reprogram the pallette so that each value has 3 bits for red, 3 bits for green and 2 bits for blue (e.g. so that 00011100b or 0x1C is green). This makes it easier to calculate the values for pixels (e.g. if you're doing alpha blending or converting from other pixel formats).


Cheers,

Brendan