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From: wjc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (William J. Chiarchiaro)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: The 24-bit question.
Message-ID: <927@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 88 16:52:15 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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Keywords: color, colormaps


Does anyone know of an algorithm for doing the following:

	Take a digitized, color image composed of 24-bit pixels
     (8 bits red, 8 bits green, 8 bits blue), and convert it to
     an 8-bit-per-pixel color image along with a suitable
     256-entry colormap (each entry has 8 bits of red, 8 of green,
     and 8 of blue).

Thanks,
Bill
(reachable on Internet at wjc@xn.ll.mit.edu)