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- From: frank@whare.cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: 24bit > 8bit Display Question
- Message-ID: <3iiiPB1w165w@whare.cavebbs.welly.gen.nz>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 08:55:25 NZT
- References: <BssDHt.19u@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Tech-Soft Systems, Wellington NZ
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- pgrg9345@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (pAul rAdja ) writes:
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- > Question: I need to be able to display a 24bit image on a
- > pc that only has an 8bit look-up table. Does anyone know of a
- > good way or reference on how to optimally fill the
- > table up? Speed is a strong consideration in my problem.
-
- Isn't this in the FAQ list?
-
- What you want is a 'quantiser'... I've uploaded to Simtel & garbo a file
- called PVQUAN15.ZIP. It includes C source code for two quantisers
- (Heckbert's (large & slow) & Octree (smaller and not so slow)).
-
- Frank.
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