More colors!

I was thinking that there should be more colors. ALOT more. maybe we could use RGBS (Red Blue Green Shade) (I came up with the Shade my self) for example:

 term.setBackgroundColor(0,256,0,5) 

would set the color to blue with a 50% shade of black. but if you were to do

 term.setBackgroundColor(0,256,0,0) 

then it would be a pure blue 0% tint (and shade).
you can change it a little if you want. but if this is implemented i would like the concept to be fairly the same

The limited colours is an intended design decision.

16 dyes in minecraft == 16 colors in ComputerCraft.
Why complicate things?

Also, Shade is redundant. With a little experimenting, you can create any "Shaded" color with the standard 8-bit RGB system.

Hang on a sec. I've done that, actually. Yay RGBLights peripherals!

function shade(iPerc, tColor)
   iPerc = 10 - iPerc
   for i = 1, #tColor do
	  tColor[i] = tColor[i] * (iPerc/10)
   end
   return tColor
end

And with that, hopefully, [/jerk]