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From: damian@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Damian Conway)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: What's the best colormap for a 24 bit color image?
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Date: 27 Aug 90 02:43:34 GMT
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In <2383@uc.msc.umn.edu> wes@uh.msc.umn.edu (Wes Barris) writes:

>Popular algorithms for doing this are the "median-cut algorithm" or the
>"variance-based method".

The reference for median cut is the Heckbert paper featured in the "Frequently
Asked Questions" posting.

Is there a similar reference for the variance-based method?

damian
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