one 8-bit green and one 8-bit blue), each pixel contains one 8-bit number that indexes into the 256-color lookup table, which contains the RGB values (see illustration below). THIS DEFINITION IS ...

Today, however, as most computing is now at higher 8-bit increments (e.g., 32-bit or 64-bit), the term 8-bit is used to refer to color depth. As analog content is converted to digital, 8-bit allows a ...