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Alpha Channels

As we first start thinking about transparency in a computer sense, let's go back to the beginning of how computers think about our NTSC broadcast images.  You might remember that, for our purposes, a computer thinks about videos as a sequence of many individual images (frames).  It thinks about each frame as a big rectangular "quilt" of pixels, or individual dots of color - for our purposes, 720 dots wide and 480 dots tall.  And it thinks of each of those dots of color as the amount of red, green, and blue in the color.