Television Interface Adaptor · TIA · 1977
All 128 colors arranged in their original TIA register order — 16 hue families along rows, 8 luminance steps across columns. Each swatch is a specific voltage-timed chroma burst encoded into the NTSC signal.
Colors plotted as a continuous waveform, each hue family rendered as an animated oscillation. The amplitude represents perceived brightness (luma); frequency encodes hue angle on the NTSC color subcarrier.
Plotted in polar coordinates: angular position encodes hue register (0–360°), radial distance encodes luminance. Hover or tap any swatch to inspect its chromatic coordinates.
Each hue family flows as a horizontal river from its darkest register value (luma 0, left) to its brightest (luma 7, right). The height of each river encodes relative perceptual luminance using the NTSC luma formula: Y = 0.299R + 0.587G + 0.114B.
Algorithmic pixel art generated exclusively from Atari 2600 palette colors. Each pattern is computed using mathematical functions — Perlin-like noise, sine interference, Voronoi tessellation — translated to the nearest available TIA register color.
The 128 palette colors mapped into the RGB cube. Each point's X, Y, Z position corresponds directly to its Red, Green, Blue channel values. Drag to rotate. The structure reveals how NTSC encoding distributes colors non-uniformly through RGB space.
Each of the 128 colors visualized as a vertical bar, height proportional to perceived luminance. Colors are sorted by hue angle then luminance, creating a continuous chromatic frequency spectrum analogous to a visible-light spectral diagram.
Complete technical readout: all 128 colors with hex codes, RGB decomposition values, and perceptual luma. A direct interface with the palette as raw data — the way a programmer in 1979 would have seen it in the TIA register documentation.
Mathematical beauty rendered exclusively with Atari palette colors. Flow fields, strange attractors, recursive geometry — each click generates a unique composition. Art made entirely from 128 colors and pure mathematics.
Each hue family as a spectral analysis card: dominant swatch, RGB channel breakdown bars, hexadecimal readout, and perceptual luma coefficient. Sixteen complete chromatic profiles — the full scientific identity of every Atari hue family.