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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF viewers are inconsistent
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Date: 23 Jun 89 23:06:53 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil    Jun 23 10:29:00 1989


> 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.

I hope some of those solutions show up as public domain source code to
display TIFF files on 256 color displays (PC VGA, Mac II, or even Amiga)
or TIFF to GIF conversion.

--Phil howard--  <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>