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- From: jbf@mbunix.mitre.org (Frazer)
- Subject: Palettes For Visualization On The NeXT?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.152855.3068@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:28:55 GMT
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- We have some sequences of two-dimensional data that
- we convert to tiff stacks on a NeXT and view with
- NIH Image on a Mac (the NeXT has only a two bit
- grayscale). This is inconvenient, and we are interested
- in visualizing the data interactively in three dimensions.
-
- We are therefore planning to upgrade to a color NeXT
- (we like their OS and development tools). There are
- two options - a slab with 3 x 4 bit color and a cube
- with 3 x 8 bit color. Neither machine supports color
- palettes directly. (Perhap this is a consequence of
- using Display Postscript as the imaging model?)
-
- While the cube can emulate any palette we want, the
- slab is limited to 4096 specific colors, presumably
- including 16 grays. (While one can specify any 3 x 8 bit
- color on the slab, the DPS server will use dithering
- to emulate it if it doesn't match one of the 4096 specific
- colors; this isn't appropriate for our purposes.)
-
- We'll need more than 16 tones, so we either get a cube
- ($4000 more and not compatible with most of the machines
- out there), or we go to some sort of false color. Does
- anyone out there have any experience with this problem,
- or want to suggest suitable false color palettes? My
- eye can't distinguish more than about 64 greys, and we
- have found that quite adequate, so that level of quantization
- would seem appropriate.
-
- Please reply by e-mail; if there's lots of interest I'll
- summarize.
-
- Thanks in advance, Barney (jbf@mitre.org)
-