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From: montnaro@sprite.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: A few questions
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Date: Sat, 17-Jan-87 22:32:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 17 22:32:00 1987
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Keywords: fractals, color distribution, jobs

In article <563@vu-vlsi.UUCP> williams@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Thomas Williams) writes:
>	What's the best way to choose 256 24-bit colors from the possible
>thousands (millions?!) which are used in an image.

Tom DeFanti (why does his name keep coming up?) presented a paper at
SIGGRAPH '86 on presenting 24 bit images on 6-bit frame buffers. I don't
remember his technique to describe it, but his images looked awfully nice. I
believe (but don't quote me) that he compared his method with medain cut.

Skip Montanaro

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