Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!orcisi!michael
From: michael@orcisi.UUCP (Michael Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: The 24-bit question.
Message-ID: <1299@orcisi.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 88 15:13:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: orcisi.1299
Posted: Sun Mar 27 10:13:20 1988
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An interesting way to histogram a raster image is to load it into a
frame buffer, quicksort it and then run-length encode it.  The RLE
output is your histogram.

It's also visually interesting to watch.