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Re: HELP! Its Those Damned Colormaps!

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From: Richard Ottolini
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:35
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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.
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Subject: Re: HELP! Its Those Damned Colormaps!
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