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Pixel Format Visualization

Explore how an RGBA color is encoded as bytes, bits, channel values, and API-specific names across nine pixel formats.

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Follow one color through nine layouts

The app turns an RGBA color into BGRA8, RGBA8, RGB8, ARGB8, RGBA16F, RGBA32F, RGB565, RGBA4444 and RGB10A2. Channel order, packed or floating values, offsets, hex dumps and binary data remain synchronized.

Edit from either direction

  • Choose RGBA with sliders, hex input or the native picker.
  • Change channels, normalized floats, bytes, full hex dumps or binary values.
  • Compare straight and premultiplied alpha.
  • Read DirectX 9, DirectX 12 and Vulkan format-name references.

Pick a color, select the alpha mode, compare cards and edit any representation to decode it back into the shared color.

For graphics code and technical learning

The visualizer is intended for graphics and game programmers, technical artists, students and anyone debugging color buffers or learning how pixel data is laid out. Familiarity with RGBA or hexadecimal values helps, but synchronized views make the formats approachable for first-time exploration.

Local processing and limits

Conversions stay local and values are not stored. The tool starts from one 8-bit RGBA color, covers nine predefined layouts and does not process images, textures, profiles, compressed, planar or depth formats, or validate hardware capabilities. Results cannot be exported as files.

Sliders, text inputs and buttons work from the keyboard. API-mapping popovers currently depend on pointer hover, and neither screen-reader behavior nor reduced-motion support has been completed. Inter and JetBrains Mono are fetched from Google Fonts while color values remain in the browser.

Start with these highlights, then open the complete guide for every capability.

Keep every color input synchronizedAdjust RGBA sliders, type #RGB, #RRGGBB or #RRGGBBAA, or use the native color picker.Compare nine real memory layoutsInspect BGRA8, RGBA8, RGB8, ARGB8, RGBA16F, RGBA32F, RGB565, RGBA4444, and RGB10A2 with their channel order, bit widths, bytes, and in-memory arrangement.Edit whichever representation is usefulChange raw channels, normalized floating values, hexadecimal bytes and memory dump, or individual binary bits.Understand alpha and find API namesContrast straight with premultiplied alpha, then look up the matching pixel-format names used by DirectX 9, DirectX 12, and Vulkan.
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