Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: 3200 graphics
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.085955.11424@utstat.uucp>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 90 08:59:55 GMT
References: <438@fawlty.towers.oz>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <438@fawlty.towers.oz> johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz (John MacLean) writes:
>OK, I did some real tests with GIFs and 3200 graphics.
>As I said before GIFs are limited to 256 colors, so 3200 is not that
>great an advantage over 16 palettes (with optimization).
 
John, you have been talking about these graphics' translators for some time
now for the GS. Do they exist? That is, where can they be obtained?>
>Some scanlines in GIFs will have > 16 colors in them - so you still have
>to do some palette optimizations to get good results.
>The quality of this optimization is what makes a good picture.
>This can take a LONG time [stuff deleted]

How long can it take? Are we talking minutes or hours(days!)?
While I'm at it how it is possible to have a freehand drawing program
which will know when you've reached the 16 color limit in a particular
line?

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.edu
[my opinions]

