Pixel Joint Forum: Challenging Old School palette.

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Yeah you may be fancy with over a million colors to choose from, but how would you have done in the early days of computer graphics? 

The Project:

Make a picture or sprite using only the colors presented here. It's not as hard as you may think. Let the graphics limitations take the wheel for once.

Edited by Pixel_Outlaw - 15 July 2007 at 6:28pm

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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Topic: Challenging Old School palette. Posted: 15 July 2007 at 6:28pm
	Yeah you may be fancy with over a million colors to choose from, but how would you have done in the early days of computer graphics? The Project: Make a picture or sprite using only the colors presented here. It's not as hard as you may think. Let the graphics limitations take the wheel for once. Edited by Pixel_Outlaw - 15 July 2007 at 6:28pm

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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 05 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 6:36pm
	damnit. this looks like some programmers palette.. no skin colour..owell itry
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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 6:42pm
	They used to dither #FF5555 and #FFFFFF. 1:1 dither. I used to love those old Apple IIE games. Before they went weak.

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leel Commander Joined: 29 June 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3001	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 7:13pm
	so.. this is a collab then?
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Kfuchoin Commander Joined: 11 March 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 740	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 7:13pm
	dude we have to use that pallete? cool.. but if it's a old school project you forgot a detail.. the image are 4 bit =P using that pallete =D i'll see if i work something out ^^ it sounds cool.. but doesn't this need to be in challenge?
	may the pixels be with you.. ~Kfuchoin eMo looking for people for an RPG info: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4903
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Hatch Admiral Joined: 05 August 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1387	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 7:28pm
	Isn't this the EGA palette?
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Kfuchoin Commander Joined: 11 March 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 740	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 7:41pm
	nop this is teh CGA or that's what wiki says
	may the pixels be with you.. ~Kfuchoin eMo looking for people for an RPG info: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4903
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Hatch Admiral Joined: 05 August 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1387	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 8:04pm
	Well at least I was close. Edited by Hatch - 15 July 2007 at 8:04pm
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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 05 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 9:15pm
	its both actually, cuz the EGA default palette is the CGA total palette
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Hatch Admiral Joined: 05 August 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1387	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 9:18pm
	*Originally posted by Hatch* Well at least I was close. Hence the hilarity of this statement.
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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Posted: 15 July 2007 at 9:56pm
	Yeah I thought I posted in the collabs...

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Blueberry_pie Rear Admiral Joined: 24 July 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2176	Posted: 16 July 2007 at 2:05am
	I love this and I am totally going to participate. (moved it to collabs btw)
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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 05 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 16 July 2007 at 12:59pm
	i'm bored with this now...
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Club Beuker Commander Joined: 29 January 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 513	Posted: 17 July 2007 at 1:58am
	I made this, and then I had enough I might finish it some other time
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skeddles Commander Joined: 08 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 636	Posted: 19 July 2007 at 2:13pm
	I had my go:

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Pixel_Outlaw Commander Joined: 01 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3829	Posted: 19 July 2007 at 11:10pm
	I'm going to do something when I get some time away from work. :)

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Bawri Seaman Joined: 20 June 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	Posted: 20 July 2007 at 5:47am
	*Originally posted by Pixel_Outlaw* Yeah you may be fancy with over a million colors to choose from, but how would you have done in the early days of computer graphics? The Project: Make a picture or sprite using only the colors presented here. It's not as hard as you may think. Let the graphics limitations take the wheel for once. Lol, plz i r 1bit
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FredRJ Seaman Joined: 05 July 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Posted: 20 July 2007 at 6:05pm
	My Attempt...
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Blueberry_pie Rear Admiral Joined: 24 July 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2176	Posted: 21 July 2007 at 3:47pm
	Still working on my piece... It's a mockup. 320x200 resolution and all, just like a real game from those days. Some great stuff posted here so far, by the way. Looking forward to seeing more!
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Blueberry_pie Rear Admiral Joined: 24 July 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2176	Posted: 23 July 2007 at 1:11pm
	whoops double post I enjoyed working with you, palette! We should do this again some time.
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HMC Seaman Joined: 08 February 2017 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Posted: 23 July 2007 at 3:29pm
	I've already done this a few times before. I might try something again later, though. Snot a bad palette. Edited by HMC - 23 July 2007 at 3:31pm
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tocky Seaman Joined: 03 October 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5	Posted: 25 July 2007 at 6:24am
	I've been trying to find useful halfcolors and blend modes. The first set (in the second panel) are just blends of colours, the second lot have shades of grey in them. I tried to sort them by contrast, the highest contrast blends at the top, lowest at the bottom. The ones in the bottom row are difficult to tell apart from flat colours at 1X and 2X. The high-contrast ones are generally kind of ugly, but some are useful. For instance, you can pull out extra greys by mixing reds and blues. That's kind of confounding to me, but it works. At right is me trying to find naturalistic skintones. It's not a easy thing to pull off - but I think a solution is not to use naturalistic ones. If you choose lighting to suit the pallete, you could probably get away with using blues and greens, for instance. Edited by tocky - 25 July 2007 at 6:37am
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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 05 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 25 July 2007 at 12:13pm
	thats an interesting concept, i've meddled with that too a bit. however, the dither pattern in the top sections isnt as effective as a standard grid. why did you choose the circles thing? also.. bear in mind that the old resolutions were 320x200, so this image would be seen at apporximately 300% (assuming you're on 800x600 or 1024x768) at which point you'd see the dithering much much more. Edited by snader - 25 July 2007 at 12:40pm
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Blueberry_pie Rear Admiral Joined: 24 July 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2176	Posted: 25 July 2007 at 12:29pm
	EGA supports a variety of resolutions, but I'm fairly sure 320x240 isn't one of them. I think you mean 320x200. ...Just so you'd know.
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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 05 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 25 July 2007 at 12:40pm
	you didnt notice a thing.. >_> <_< >_>
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tocky Seaman Joined: 03 October 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5	Posted: 25 July 2007 at 3:08pm
	I used the wierd dither because it makes the contrast a bit more obvious, mostly so that you can see the colours I'd used for each without zoom. I actually made this one first, I was gonna post them both, they just look wierd next to each other: Those lowcontrast ones are still pretty effective at 3x or 4x, anyway. I just didn't really check before, because it's not easy in paint. EDIT: A much more useful summary of my best findings: original pallete \| red/cyan mixes as grey midtones best hue shifts best desaturations, sorted roughly by luminance Edited by tocky - 25 July 2007 at 4:40pm
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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 05 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 25 July 2007 at 5:24pm
	check what? the zoom? you know you can zoom 2 or 4x or resize the image.. right?
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Kren Midshipman Joined: 18 October 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 89	Posted: 27 July 2007 at 12:29pm
	Thats my try, Inspired by Bluberry_pie, I like how it ended mostly the zombie.
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