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From: oltz@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Michael Oltz)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Color table database
Message-ID: <4418@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 88 13:57:16 GMT
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Reply-To: oltz@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Michael Oltz)
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Summary: similar question

In article <1059@cod.NOSC.MIL> thrapp@cod.NOSC.MIL (Gary R. Thrapp) writes:
>I am very interested in obtaining a set of RGB (or convertible to RGB)
>values to construct a 64, 128, or 256 element color table with a wide
>variety of colors including things like shades of brown?

I have a similar situation.  I will need to grab many video images of
color distributions which I cannot predict, and quantize them down to
256 colors.  All of them must use exactly the same color table.  The
question is, does anyone out there have experience with what is a good
table for doing this?  All I know about the images is that in some cases
there will be people in them and we don't want them to come out orange,
but it is all right if they look a little 'Sunday funnies'.  P.S.  I
cannot take samples and calculate a table from that.  This procedure
would be used in many different situations, so I don't know what I'm
getting.

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