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Were VGA palette's HSV math properties used in practice?

I don't think it's the same palette, but XCom/UFO used a palette composed of the same colors at different brightnesses so that it could do dynamic lighting with it. I think this may have been a ...
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Were VGA palette's HSV math properties used in practice?

I would believe the question is not really answerable the way it is. For one,the default palette is a manufacturer side offering, as such intended for low effort application, the ones that do not take ...
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Why were those colors chosen to be the default palette for 256-color VGA?

TL;DR: It's All About How To Look At the Palette That way it doesn't look any hideous and ugly, or does it? How Come? What is the origin of the default 256-color VGA palette? IBM's BIOS code :)) ...
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Why were those colors chosen to be the default palette for 256-color VGA?

People may think of VGA as ugly now, but considering what came before it, it offered much more flexibility than most previous home computer color implementations. Those often offered 8 or 16 colors ...
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Why were those colors chosen to be the default palette for 256-color VGA?

The VGA default palette in the 256 colour mode (Mode 13h) first has 16 color entries from CGA (which is also same as default 16-color EGA palette and the only palette for 320x200 EGA mode) Next 16 ...
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Why were those colors chosen to be the default palette for 256-color VGA?

If I recall, it's the 16-color default palette, followed by 216 colors chosen as the combinations of 3 luminance values, 3 saturation values, and 24 hue values. Having 24 hues for all nine ...
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