What is grayscale?
Grayscale refers to displaying more than two different colors on the calculator’s screen. Even though the screen was designed to display only two colors, the illusion of having more colors can be made by changing between different images very rapidly; pixels that are drawn in all images appear just as dark as pixels drawn normally, those that are clear in all images appear as the regular clear color, and pixels drawn in only some of the images will appear as having colors somewhere between them. Grayscale can be used very effectively on the TI-85 and above. There have been some problems with grayscale on TI-89 and TI-92+ calculators with hardware version 2, but these problems have now been solved. Grayscale has also been attempted on the other TI calculators, but due to the display controller causes it to use a large amount of CPU time, and there are also some problems with flickering. Grayscale is most commonly used to display 4 colors (which requires two screen buffers; one is usuall