It is possible to run the graphical examples over the network, e.g., using "ssh -X". However, if client and server use different endianness, the colours look unfamiliar compared to an all-local setup.
If you're familiar with the X Window System, you might consider contributing a solution that uses XImage::byte_order to conditionally swap the bytes returned from get_color() and whatever else is needed to make this problem go away, so I can go read a book instead (I'm getting only partial success so far). :-)
