OpenEuphoria

Re: palette remap

• Posted by Lucius Hilley III <lhilley at CDC.NET> Mar 02, 1999
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Thank you Ralf,  I believe it is labeled Hilley's Utilities at the Archives.

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:29:51 +0100, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL>
wrote:

>>I have a bitmap (a photo) that uses almost all 256 available colors. I
>>want to use 64 colors for something else. How do I remap existing 256
>>colors into just 192 with a minimal distortion? I would prefer
>>Euphoric solution to expensive commercial packages. Anybody with a
>>ready-made function? Pete, Colin? Thanks jiri.
>
>You can steal 'Neal' matching function, jiri.
>Its in there somewhere. It just matches the colors of a bitmap to the best
match with the current palette, without altering that
>palette.
>But you will problely be able to use it in that way. Also Lucius Hilley
ones made a library with all kinds of palette routines,
>it should be somewhere on the archives.
>
>And you could off course just go 'true color'
>
>Ralf