Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mport!lee
From: lee@mport.COM (Lee Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: Color Compression Software Available
Keywords: COLOR QUANTIZATION
Message-ID: <52@mport.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 21:11:29 GMT
References: <456@regina.uregina.ca>
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Vally, CA
Lines: 15

wan@mercury (Shijie Wan) writes:

>	Color Compression Software Available

> [Description of an implementation of the WWP vector quantizer.]

There are several public domain sources for this algorithm, most of them
based on an implementation by Craig Kolb.  The FBM utilities is probably
the best source for Unix.  Piclab implements the algorithm for MSDOS.
Both are available FTP from various graphics-oriented archive sites.
-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker
lee@mport.com (Microport)
...!uunet!mport!lee
73407.2030@compuserve.com