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- as if we were counting on sixteen fingers instead of ten
hexa = 6 in Greek, decima = 10 in Latin...
- where the digits are called 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-A-B-C-D-E-F:
This is handy because
and the six values used in the 216-tone palette - decimal 0, 51, 102, 153, 204, 255 - are expressed as 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, FF.
I must say it's much easier to work with these patterns than to describe them, or to understand them from reading about them. It's much easier to grasp visually, and you can see some practical examples in a moment.
To convert visual colours
into the numbers which the computer needs...
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