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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF viewers are inconsistent
Message-ID: <12315@well.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 06:58:13 GMT
References: <4623@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <pokey@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) wrote:
}GIF is restricted to 256 unique colors? How is one to convert Amiga HAM
}images (with up to 4096 unique colors) to GIF? Some will work, but others
}won't.

To say nothing of converting professional-quality 24 bit deep images to
a 256-element colormap.  This is known as the color quantization problem.
If you read comp.graphics for a while, you will be sure to see solutions
posted.
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Jef

    Jef Poskanzer  pokey@well.sf.ca.us  {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey
              "What we've got here is a failure to communicate."