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In article <23993@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>The images archived with GIF are slightly better: 256 colors,
>[...]
>I wrote the scanner software that produced the color image of
>a red flower in the April issue of MacWorld. Our scanner produces 6Meg of
>data for each image: 1500x1024x24bits_per_pixel.  I may post a GIF image
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>of that, but it sort of blows GIF out of the water.  The scanner costs
>$8.5k.
 ^^^^^

Probably most of the 256 color images you currently find in GIF format
are images that were originally digitized in 640 x 480 x 21 bits_per_pixel
on a Commodore Amiga and run through a special program to map the 21 bit
color images to 8 bit color images.  Cost of DigiView for the Amiga?
$149.95 (list).   So, divide the image dimensions and colors per gun by 2
(approximately) and save a few bucks.  :-)

-Fred  ><>


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