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[john gustaf stebbins]

The color space used to be 16 bit (5 bits per color) but was revised to use 32 bit colors (8 bit per color and alpha).

Some functions took 8 bit per color numbers, but then converted down to the 16 bit format in the graphics objects. As I recall, RGB did this taking three 8 bit numbers and converting to the 16 bit format.

I don't remember exactly when this happened, but I pretty sure it was after 2013. I remember having a few programs that depended on the 16 bit format that had to be fixed.