With modern consoles offering gamers graphics so photorealistic that they blur the line between CGI and reality, it's easy forget just how cartoonishly blocky they were in the 8-bit era. In his new ...

A palette of 216 colors that render the same on all computer hardware. Also called a "Web-safe palette," it was selected by Netscape in the early days of the Web when many computers supported only ...

A method of compressing an image that enables 8 bits per pixel to look almost as good as 24 bits per pixel. The technique determines the 256 most frequently used colors in the image and creates a ...

Scientists at the University of Vienna have achieved a significant milestone in DNA technology, introducing a breakthrough that expands the color spectrum available for DNA-based images. Traditionally ...