Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: The Future of HAM
Keywords: Overlay bit, alpha channel
Message-ID: <795@becker.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 15:46:52 GMT
References: <1579@psueea.UUCP> <19144@usc.edu> <507@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <507@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
|[...]
|What's an alpha channel?  Tell us more.

	The amount of transparency (or opacity)
	of an object. For example, an object
	with R = G = B = 100% and Alpha = 50%
	would be a 50% Neutral Density filter.

Cheers,
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