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- From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
- Subject: Why do the IBM BMPs look so awful?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.063736.7961@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 06:37:36 GMT
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- Out of curiority, I downloaded the bga?bmp.zip files from
- software.watson.ibm.com to see if anything would make a decent background for
- my 1024x768x256 screen. They look really awful, like some sort of bad
- impressionist art (not that impressionism is intrinsically bad ...). At 3/4
- Meg apiece, I would expect something photographic in quality. What's the deal?
-
- It occurs to me that these might only be 16-color images, but they are not
- even decent 16-color dithers. If you've ever looked at lighthou.vga in your
- os2\bitmap directory, it's the same effect ...
-
- Curious ...
- Mike
- --
- Mike Ressler - Infrared Photon Jockey ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu
- - astronomer who favors changing "Big Bang" to "Horrendous Space Kablooie"
- Some people like music they can brush their teeth to in the morning.
- Me? I like music I can brush my teeth with ...
-