I always thought that the correct order was RGB, Red (lowest frequency), Gr=
een (middle), then Blue (highest).

But as you all said, it is not really relevant for chips.

My $0.02,
Jean-Paul
AC9GH


On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:26 AM, RussellMc <apptechnz@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> This is talking about
>> order of storage and/or transmission
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>>>> 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.
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> and
> t
> his is talking about
> order of storage and/or transmission
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>>>> 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. :-)
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>> Nobody (that I saw when I looked) except JS used the term "significance"
> in any context other "talking about
> order of storage and/or transmission
> ".
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> JS quite rightly pointed out that <taken simplistically> all three colour=
s
> are equally significant.
> There is nothing wrong with that observation in the context.
> But a read through the thread, looking at occurrences of "signif"  will
> show no occasion on which people used the concept of "significance" to
> refer to the relative weight merit height valor or serendipitousness of t=
he
> component colours used.
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> Which is all I was saying.
> As far as I can see it is a correct interpretation of the words that all
> people wrote.
> I may have missed something.
> If I genuinely missed someone stating that colours were in some ways rank=
ed
> in significance and it seems worth pointing it out to me, please do. (I'd
> much rather know where I've got things wrong than to proceed on blissfull=
y
> unaware of having done so).
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> So
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>> No, it doesn't. The order by which the *colors* are sent has
>> nothing to do with significans,
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> Agree
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>> it is just a design choice.
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> Agree
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>> All three colors are equaly significant as such!
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>> Agree at a simplistic level (which is all that counts here).
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> The order how each *bit* of *each color* is sent has everything
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>> to do with (bit) significance.
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>> Agree.
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> I don't see that any of us ever disagreed on anything.
> As long as the comment on some colours not being more significant than
> others was a philosophical musing and not a perceived correction I think =
we
> have all been agreed throughout.
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> No?
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