> compared to the 216 colors of the web safe palette that must have been chosen by a physicist because 60% of them make me want to puke.
Most likely a computer programmer. It's just all the combinations of six shades of Red, Green and Blue that are equally spaced out. 00, 33, 66, 99, cc and ff.
The NES colors are actually equally simplistic internally:
12 equally spaced color hues with 4 levels of luma (plus 4 grays, 2 whites and 10 blacks wasting space in the pallet). But it works so much better because it's done in the YUV color space, rather than the RGB color space. Then the analog hardware doesn't manage to replicate it's target YUV colors accurately (or consistently across models, regions and even individual machines/tvs), which adds character.
Most likely a computer programmer. It's just all the combinations of six shades of Red, Green and Blue that are equally spaced out. 00, 33, 66, 99, cc and ff.
The NES colors are actually equally simplistic internally:
12 equally spaced color hues with 4 levels of luma (plus 4 grays, 2 whites and 10 blacks wasting space in the pallet). But it works so much better because it's done in the YUV color space, rather than the RGB color space. Then the analog hardware doesn't manage to replicate it's target YUV colors accurately (or consistently across models, regions and even individual machines/tvs), which adds character.