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From: pt@beta.lanl.gov (Paul A. Thiessen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF viewers are inconsistent
Message-ID: <26915@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 23 Jun 89 15:31:54 GMT
References: <5300015@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1305@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <4623@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: pt@beta.UUCP (Paul A. Thiessen)
Organization: Los Alamos Natl. Labs, Los Alamos, NM
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In article <4623@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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.

Just a note: GIF can only have 256 colors *on screen*, from a choice of
about 16 million (256**3). I don't know if that's what you meant, but
it is true that a choice of only 256 colors would be lame...

          - Paul
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