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Alpha Buffer
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Alpha Buffer (Computer Graphics) 
An extra Color channel to hold transparency information; pixels become quad values (RGBA). In a 32-bit frame buffer there are 24 bits of color, 8 each for red, green, and blue, along with an 8-bit alpha channel.
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