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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: HELP! Its Those Damned Colormaps!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.003522.1579@unocal.com>
- Keywords: sun-rasterfile, vga, colormap, normalize
- Sender: news@unocal.com (Unocal USENET News)
- Organization: Unocal Corporation
- References: <1992Dec22.195753.8789@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:35:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.195753.8789@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jrm2k@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Jeff Michel) writes:
- >paragraphs, my question is: "Is there any software available which will allow me
- >to normalize the colormaps of a sequence of Sun rasterfile images into *one*
- >common colormap including all or most of the colors of the images of the
- >sequence?" If not for Sun, then is there source code for the normalization of
- >*any* colormap-oriented graphics architecture (eg. VGA)?
-
- Yes,, but it it is tedious.
- The pbmplus system distributed with XWindows.
- First convert all images to ppms.
- Then the ppmquant program will reduce the entire set or subset to a common
- color table of arbitray size.
- Then convert back to the original format.
-