Plasma is a port of the plasma routines from
Alex Champandard's "The art of Demomaking", which can 
be found on flipcode.com/demomaking/issue04.shtml<br>
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The port to Linux uses code<sup>x</sup>'s Petal 1.0, and
is therefore now able to run in all colour depths from
8bpp to 32bpp.<br>
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It should be noted, however, that the 8bpp mode is,
currently, just treated like all other modes; a
palette is not created, and colour's are found that
best fit the ideal colour.  The result is probably
fairly poor, considering there're only 256 colours
to choose from (although Petal itself does change the
8bpp palette to provide the widest range of colours).<br>
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It should also be noted that I've made no attempt to
optimize this code yet.  This was a quick 10 minute
port.  In order to support all colour depths, I've
used Petal's putpixel function, which means there's a
far call and a multiply for each pixel on screen.
This could be easily fixed, however.