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in the World Wide Web Consortium, bit depth is defined as "the number of bits per sample or per palette index (not per pixel)".
* PLTE contains the palette: a list of colors.
* IDAT contains the image, which may be split among multiple IDAT chunks. Such splitting slightly increases the file size, but makes it possible to generate a PNG in a streaming manner. The IDAT chunk contains the actual image data, which

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