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I *hope* this is a FAQ.

I'm doing frame-by-frame animation on Sun-4's.  My approach is to
put up sequences of images converted to the Sun-specific, video-RAM specific
(pixrect) format and colormap format (pixrect) of the graphics hardware (cg6) of
the machine.  (This graphics architecture makes use of a 24-bit, 256 color
colormap.)

The problem with this approach has been that when the colormaps of two
consecutive images in the sequence differ, there is a brief instant during which
the colormap for the previous image is loaded, but the image loaded on the screen
needs a different colormap.  The result of this is an annoying *flicker*.  Are
you nodding your head?  Have you seen this problem?

What I'd like is for all of the video-RAM format images to have the *same*
colormap so that the problem of flicker never arises.  So, after three
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)?

Thanks,
Jeff Michel	jrm2k@Virginia.EDU