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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: The Party II graphics competition
- Message-ID: <10594@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:10:53 GMT
- References: <Paul_Trauth.1dvd@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US> <1jotoeINN90t@cc.tut.fi> <kkallio.727739497@vipunen.hut.fi>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
- Lines: 29
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- In article <kkallio.727739497@vipunen.hut.fi> kkallio@vipunen.hut.fi (Kiia Kallio) writes:
- >In <1jotoeINN90t@cc.tut.fi> l115130@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (Lehtonen Tero) writes:
- >
- >Even if you know how HAM
- >works and adjust your palette to that there will be errors in the
- >picture.
-
- But if you really know how it works then you can well hide those
- transistions and fringings. At least I know several pictures where
- someone succeeded in this.
-
- >>Now I disagree! HAM is challenging and difficult to use, but when you get used
- >>to it there is no other choice! I love to have about 1,500 different colours
- >>in one picture - boy, it looks great!
- >
- >I would like to see a picture with that amount of colours... It is about 3/8
- >of whole amiga palette. I have studied art, and dare to say that it would
- >be a bit too colourful.
-
- Oh you're wrong. You need *many* colors when there are smooth transitions
- from one color to another. And this is the fact for most natural images,
- like digitized ones or also raytraced ones. I have counted the numbers
- in some good HAM images I have, and also came out with numbers between
- 1000 and even 2000!
-
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- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions...
- Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
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