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See also [[555/565]], [[green spew]].
 
See also [[555/565]], [[green spew]].
*[http://www.creatures.org.uk/ccsf2006/news.php?id=36 Coining of the term]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20211014072954/https://www.creatures.org.uk/ccsf2006/news.php?id=36 Coining of the term]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 00:21, 16 May 2022

The rainbow spew error in Ostrova.

"Rainbow spew" is the Creatures term given to the effect of attempting to display a texture or sprite in the wrong color depth. For example, if a program tries to load a 24-bit bitmap as a 16-bit bitmap, it will read the first two bytes, instead of the first three, and attempt to display that color as the first pixel, then read

What is stored 8 C C 3 2 A 9 0 3 0 C 1
What is displayed 8 C C 3 2 A 9 0

See also 555/565, green spew.