Ó 2001
Prentice Hall
3.16
Color Depth (Pixel Depth)
•The amount of
information per pixel is known
as the color depth
–Monochrome (1 bit
of information per pixel)
–Gray-scale (8 bits of information per pixel)
–Color (8 or 16
bits of information per pixel)
–True color (24 or 32 bits of information per pixel)