Bitplanes is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bitplanes meaning
plural of bitplane
Using Bitplanes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of bitplane
- In the example corpus, bitplanes often appears in combinations such as: of bitplanes.
Context around Bitplanes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bitplanes
- In this selection, "bitplanes" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include each three bitplanes each are and number of bitplanes and resolution. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bitplanes" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bitplanes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The number of bitplanes (and resolution) can be changed on the fly, usually by the Copper. (16 words)
The number of bitplanes is arbitrary, thus if 32 colors are not needed, 2, 4, 8 or 16 can be used instead. (22 words)
In dual-playfield mode, instead of acting as a single screen, two "playfields" of eight colors each (three bitplanes each) are drawn on top of each other. (27 words)
Other improvements were the ability of the blitter to copy regions larger than 1024 1024 pixels in one operation and the ability to display sprites in border regions (outside of any display window where bitplanes are shown). (37 words)
In dual-playfield mode, instead of acting as a single screen, two "playfields" of eight colors each (three bitplanes each) are drawn on top of each other. (27 words)
The number of bitplanes is arbitrary, thus if 32 colors are not needed, 2, 4, 8 or 16 can be used instead. (22 words)
Example sentences (4)
In dual-playfield mode, instead of acting as a single screen, two "playfields" of eight colors each (three bitplanes each) are drawn on top of each other.
Other improvements were the ability of the blitter to copy regions larger than 1024 1024 pixels in one operation and the ability to display sprites in border regions (outside of any display window where bitplanes are shown).
The number of bitplanes (and resolution) can be changed on the fly, usually by the Copper.
The number of bitplanes is arbitrary, thus if 32 colors are not needed, 2, 4, 8 or 16 can be used instead.
Common combinations with bitplanes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of bitplanes 2×