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From: kaufman@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Utilities for RGB to 8-Bit
Message-ID: <2863@polya.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 20 May 88 04:39:46 GMT
References: <92@ai.etl.army.mil> <6604@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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In article <6604@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:

->	I have a 24-bit color image on VAX with UNIX:
->	I want to display this on Mac II, 8-bit video.

>     Sure, get one pixel at a time from your unix file, then SetRGBColor to
>  red*256, green*256, blue*256, then SetPixel(x,y). This saves programmer time
>  at the expense of user time.

You might prefer SetCPixel, which does both operations at once.