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From: phaedrus@eneevax.UUCP (Praveen Kumar)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Translating an image of 24 bits to 8 bits
Message-ID: <656@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-May-86 21:58:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  6 21:58:43 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 20:52:43 EDT
Reply-To: phaedrus@eneevax.UUCP (Praveen Kumar)
Organization: EE Dept, Maryversity of Uniland
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Are there any algorithms to compress a 24-bit picture into an 8-bit picture.
I know that I'll loose a lot of information and the picture won't be as good,
but at least I can display them on most graphics terminals.

Thanks in advance,

praveen

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