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From: falk%peregrine@Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: A few questions
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Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 11:28:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 15 11:28:26 1987
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Keywords: fractals, color distribution, jobs

In article <563@vu-vlsi.UUCP> williams@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Thomas Williams) writes:
>
>Question #2: Choosing colors 
>	What's the best way to choose 256 24-bit colors from the possible
>thousands (millions?!) which are used in an image.  Supposedly a method 
>called 'median cut' was described in "Color image quantization for frame
>buffer display", but this is an old-reference and I don't have the author's
>name or publication (though it's probably Computer Graphics).  Any ideas?
>

Every two months, regular as clockwork, someone posts this question.

Check out:

	Paul Heckbert
	Color Image Qantization for Frame Buffer Display
	SIGGRAPH '82 proceedings, pp. 297-307

This is starting to become one of the classics, like the original
Bresenham paper.


		-ed falk, sun microsystems
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