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From: yanek@panix.uucp (Yanek Martinson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Palette selection
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.055314.14808@panix.uucp>
Date: 7 Jun 91 05:53:14 GMT
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Can anybody help with this? Problem: I have an image in 24-bit color (a byte
for each r, g, b), and I need to display it on a screen that can show 256 
colors at a time, out of palette of 262144 (18 bits, 6 bits for each r,g,b).
How do I select the best 256 colors that represent the 24-bit picture?
Source code? Comments? Algorithms? Suggestion?