K&E - see near end

>
> One stupid moment, the datasheet calls out the order of colors as GRB,
>> which is how I made the data structure. What I forgot was that they
>> are talking about transmission order, and they are MSB first. So it
>> actually needed to be BRG.

is saying the same as

> What could be a question about significance is the order
> the individual bits or each color is sent. *That* could
> be MSb or LSb (Most/Least Significant bit) first. :-)

AFAICS.

> In any case, just follow what the datasheet says.

And there's the rub.
The data sheet, as datasheets do,  provides different clues & hints and
part of the facts in each of  several places and you need to reconcile the
lot, where possible.
In cases such as this it seems almost too simple to need to draw up a
diagram of how signals flow through the system.
Alas, it's not.

I have long wondered what having a super-high IQ would mean in theory and
how it would be manifested in practice. By looking at various examples of
what Sir Isaac Newton managed and (apparently) how, I think that one aspect
would be (and was) the ability to visualise vastly  complex spatial and
temporal relationships (simultaneously where necessary) 'in your head' and
to draw conclusions from what you see that are blindingly obvious when you
have this ability and simply apparently miraculous when you don't. Quite
often when solving real world problems that require committing diagrams to
paper (or equivalent) I wonder "what would Sir Isaac do" and I feel that I
can at least sometimes conceive of how be would see things even though the
things he'd see escape me.

In Sir I's  case I imagine that little and big endianness, BOGBS and
MEVEEAMAJUSAURNEPL* would all flow together equally well.

I "do OK" on classic western 'culture biased' IQ tests. I hate the newer
style of 'culture free' tests much beloved of Mensa and fellow travellers -
all full of squares and circles and lines and spatial comparisons. They
make my brain hurt and in doing them I feel much more under fire than when
doing traditional tests. Interestingly  - I score about the same in either
case.


      Russell


* One of these things is not like the others but is retained for old times
sake. From a child's drawing on our pantry door. Long long ago my my
children transcribed it into a birthday card and assured me that at some
stage the meaning would suddenly be blindingly obvious. I did not note the
source.  I stuck it up somewhere and my brain gnawed on it in the
background, maybe for a year or so, until, one day, it was blindingly
obvious.
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