Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!sunybcs!boulder!ncar!noao!mcdsun!fishpond!fnf From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: generic gif to macs Message-ID: <32@fishpond.UUCP> Date: 12 May 88 03:06:13 GMT References: <174400108@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> <174400109@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> <23993@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) Organization: occasionally Lines: 24 In article <23993@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes: >The images archived with GIF are slightly better: 256 colors, >[...] >I wrote the scanner software that produced the color image of >a red flower in the April issue of MacWorld. Our scanner produces 6Meg of >data for each image: 1500x1024x24bits_per_pixel. I may post a GIF image ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >of that, but it sort of blows GIF out of the water. The scanner costs >$8.5k. ^^^^^ Probably most of the 256 color images you currently find in GIF format are images that were originally digitized in 640 x 480 x 21 bits_per_pixel on a Commodore Amiga and run through a special program to map the 21 bit color images to 8 bit color images. Cost of DigiView for the Amiga? $149.95 (list). So, divide the image dimensions and colors per gun by 2 (approximately) and save a few bucks. :-) -Fred ><> -- # Fred Fish hao!noao!mcdsun!fishpond!fnf (602) 921-1113 # Ye Olde Fishpond, 1346 West 10th Place, Tempe, AZ 85281 USA