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Posted 17 December 2014 - 08:27 AM
Why not? They are on the grayscale like white and black
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Allow gray and light gray on regular computers.
Started by Agent Silence, 17 December 2014 - 07:27 AM
7508 posts
Australia
Posted 17 December 2014 - 08:35 AM
Just so you know, you can do term.setBackgroundColor( colors.white ) on normal computers, so you're not just limited to white text on black background, you can have black text on white background too. here was another discussion on this same matter.
Edited on 17 December 2014 - 07:36 AM
7083 posts
Tasmania (AU)
Posted 17 December 2014 - 08:54 AM
Although you wouldn't think it, regular computers happen to make "black" text grey already.
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[string "FindMe"]:23143: bad argument #1 to 'returnPos' (vector expected, got nil)
Posted 17 December 2014 - 09:00 AM
Yeah I know, it isn't a pure color like the rest of the colors.Although you wouldn't think it, regular computers happen to make "black" text grey already.
Thank you for linking the post, but I think it is a subject that should be revived.Just so you know, you can do term.setBackgroundColor( colors.white ) on normal computers, so you're not just limited to white text on black background, you can have black text on white background too. here was another discussion on this same matter.
Edited on 17 December 2014 - 08:07 AM
1522 posts
The Netherlands
Posted 17 December 2014 - 02:47 PM
Thank you for linking the post, but I think it is a subject that should be revived.
I really disagree, because it is black & white. Those technically cannot be mixed as it is a per pixel thing if you take it literally.
Gray exists because we mix colors, which we also use for our screens nowadays. Red Green Blue are the base colors of those screens, and thus they mix colors. That is the "advanced" version, but unfortunately we cannot really mix with rgb with CC.
Because of that, I think it should just stay black & white
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Posted 17 December 2014 - 06:48 PM
I really disagree, because it is black & white. Those technically cannot be mixed as it is a per pixel thing if you take it literally.
Black and white TVs could produce grey colors. They weren't literally black or white at each pixel.
Gray exists because we mix colors, which we also use for our screens nowadays. Red Green Blue are the base colors of those screens, and thus they mix colors. That is the "advanced" version, but unfortunately we cannot really mix with rgb with CC.
RGB has nothing to do with it. A white light can be dimly lit to produce a grey. There's no colorizing about it.
I think having the greys would be nice, but ultimately it's not too important and I wouldn't be upset for it to go unimplemented.
64 posts
Finland
Posted 19 December 2014 - 05:28 AM
Nah, personally I would hate that. It is literally black and white, not black and white and 500 shades of gray
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Posted 19 December 2014 - 07:18 AM
https://www.google.c...ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQNah, personally I would hate that. It is literally black and white, not black and white and 500 shades of gray
They use gray for shading.
Edited on 19 December 2014 - 06:19 AM
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Australia
Posted 19 December 2014 - 08:11 AM
Just because real old-school technologies used Greyscale doesn't mean that ComputerCraft does. But to that point, if you want to go into real technologies, my grandfathers old computer (not sure of the name of the system) is pure black and white, the system does not support greys, and it doesn't even support black on white, only white text on black background; something which ComputerCraft Normal Computers do support.