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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: CLUT problem
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Date: 5 Sep 90 17:52:08 GMT
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In article <12230@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>
>For instance -- I'm drawing files (PICT and TIFF) into 32-bit offscreen
>pixmaps, then drawing them to eight-bit screens.  The amount of color
>distortion is phenomenal, although the files look great on a 32-bit
>screen.  It's so bad that it seems the system is not even getting
>mileage out of the 256 colors in the CLUT -- it seems to be making bad
>selections. 

As I understand it, CQD in fact makes NO selections-- it uses the colors
available in the CLUT.  You have to pick good colors in the first place.