Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!rick From: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.graphics Subject: boring group Message-ID: <1556@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 00:09:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.1556 Posted: Thu Oct 11 00:09:08 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 03:21:03 EDT Organization: UCLA CS Dept. Lines: 36 <==== yum yum ====> Is this net.graphics or net.boring? All, or at least most, of the other groups have ongoing discussions. This seems to be a variant of net.wanted: "we just got device such-and-so, does anybody know how to use it?". I can't believe that either 1) no-one is doing any graphics work, or 2) everyone knows exactly what they are doing. So how about some discussion going on here? Let's talk about such things as: * what equipment you are USING, and to do what * what kind of graphics systems are out there * what are you doing research on * what problems are you having * what nifty solutions have you come up with for certain problems * anything else you feel is appropriate Come on people, we can be as verbose as the AIrheads can't we? To start the ball rolling here is a semi-reposting. I have been generating color (that's colour for you people in Canada) images using an 8 bit color lookup table. However, I have been unable to find any good algorithms (or even bad ones, although I have invented several TERRIBLE ones) to allocate my precious 256 entries in the color table. Of course it would be a lot easier to generate the picture completely in 24 bits but then what is the point in using a scanline algorithm for rendering? So, does anyone have a way to allocate color table entries while a program is running with no 'a priori' knowledge of what the picture looks like? Rick Gillespie rick@ucla-cs ...!{cepu|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|ucbvax}!ucla-cs!rick "I came here for a good argument!" "No you came here for an argument" ps - my apologies to the people who saw a similar posting on a different graphics bulletin board.