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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Resolution, etc.
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Date: 20 Nov 90 17:49:53 GMT
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In article <2928@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
|  I'm not convinced that you need 24 bits of color for the memory,
|either. Systems like the VGA which have a large palette and a limited
|number of selections work very well. If you look at the output of a 24
|bit color scanner scanning quality photographs, you rarely find an image
|which doesn't map into 256 colors nicely. Very rarely.

I'm afraid I have to disagree based on the VGA 256 color images I've
seen. I've seen some impressive GIF images that tended to be all
variations of one color. I've also seen images that bordered on
showing banding. And I've seen images scanned by amateurs that clearly
looked amateurish so I assume there is considerable art associated
with palette selection when you are limited to 256 colors.

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