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From: ephraim@heart.technion.ac.il (Ephraim Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Real Colour to Colormap Conversion?
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Date: 29 Nov 88 08:13:57 GMT
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Original-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 88 13:44:01 +0200
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 27, message 9 of 12

I have an image in real colour (i.e. 24 bits/pixel) and would like to know
if any algorithm exists to "compress" this to 256 colours so that I can
display it on the Sun.  Please reply by E-MAIL and I will summarise in two
weeks time.

Ephraim Silverberg,
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering,
Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa, Israel.

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