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From: Jim Phillips <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Clip Maps?
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At 11:55 AM 4/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi 'Wavers,
>  I am trying to use a sequence of images as clip maps and having
>problems creating the clip maps as silhouettes. The images don't have
>single, distinct edges so edge detection doesn't work. I've also tried
>reducing to two colors but that doesn't work, the central part becomes
>one color but I lose the diffuse edges.
>  I don't have Photoshop but I have Picture Publisher and Paint Shop Pro.
>Is there anyway to get a two-color silhouette from a 24-bit image with
>any of these programs? If you have any way to do this by any other means,
>I would appreciate hearing about it. TIA.
>
>
What you want to do is convert these images to greyscale somehow.
Photoshop can do that, but I don't know about your other software.  You also
probably want to batch-process them, to save time.
Jim Phillips
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