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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3843.0. "CYMB and DSP?" by KBOMFG::HAUCK (It's me!) Wed Jun 13 1990 13:10

    
    Hi,
    
    does anyone know the abbreviations CYMB and DSP?
    
    
    thanks,
    
    Jochen.
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3843.1Check Your Mail Box and Do Something PositiveWJG::GUINEAUWed Jun 13 1990 13:539
    
    
>    does anyone know the abbreviations CYMB and DSP?

With regard to what? Some context may help...


DSP may mean Digital Signal Processor if your talking electronic chips.

3843.2if it's about images ..KETJE::VLASIUWed Jun 13 1990 14:4618
    CYMB may be Cyan Yellow Magenta Black abreviation if it's about color
    images, color publishing or typesetting systems. Once an image has to
    be printed the CYMB representation is prefered (from far) to RGB, in
    order to have a better black (and it's also cheaper when printing only
    black and white). You can generate CYMB from RGB the black value beeing
    computed in different ways from the RGB values.
    I suppose you are familiar about RGB (Red Green Blue representation of
    colors).
    Speaking about images, DSP may be some particular image file type
    (like PICT is for MacPaint ??). But I don't know more about DSP.
    
    Now, going back to CYMB and speaking about the new Mac image
    capabilities, it's interesting to observe that by using 32 bit words
    for 3x8 bit (24 bits total) RGB representation, they still have 8 bits
    within the words for a 4th component. So they can manipulate eventually
    CYMB images for electronic publishing applications.
    
    Sorin
3843.3much thanks...KBOMFG::HAUCKIt's me!Mon Jun 18 1990 04:541