🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3r5qil$dd4_003@ldh.interlog.com>
           ldh@interlog.com "Laurent-David HASSON" writes:

> - Palette management.
>
>   When i add a bitmap to the "canvas", the first one works fine, but the 
>following ones cause the palette to change... I tried to not change the 
>palette after the first image has been put on the canvas, but then, all the 
>folowing images come in weird colors... Is there a way to have a common 
>palette? Should i "play" with palettes and make an average palette, 
>depending on the individual bitmaps i want to assemble? How should i go 
>about it? 
>   I am sure that what i want is feasible since many programs, including MS 
>PowerPoint, allow the user to assemble images from different sources, like 
>metafiles, bmp etc... and the colors don't die in the way.

There has been some disussion here of an algorithm called "median cut"
for picking the best palette. I don't know any details however.

-- 
John Beardmore     wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk
                   wookie@cix.compulink.co.uk

Windows '95:  95% the same old DOS and windows...