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Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? [message #16250 is a reply to message #16239]

Mon, 12 July 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Rose (rmlongfield@my-deja.com) writes:

> Here's a question I haven't seen discussed yet. I have several
> different GIF files given to me by several sources. I can read and
> display them individually. However, I can't look at them all at the same
> time. This is, I believe, due to the fact that the GIF files come with
> their own color tables. Every time a new one is loaded, the color table
> from the previous one is re-defined. I have tried the
> "split table" technique outlined in DWF's book, but it doesn't work
> because some of the GIF images fill in all the r,g,b arrays.
>
> Now, these are just xy plots and clearly all these colors are
> not necessary. Is there some way of defining which colors are important
> and which are just "pretty"? Maybe a reverse color24 function (DWF)?

Well, as Liam points out, if you had a 24-bit color display
things would be easy. But I'm guessing that if you had a
24-bit color display, you wouldn't be needin' us. :-)

So, here is what I would do, assuming that the GIF files
really only do use a handful of colors each. I'd create
color separations of the GIF image, just as if you were
going to create 24-bit JPEG images, for example:

http://www.dfanning.com/tips/jpeg.html

Then, I would take these 24-bit images and I would pass them
through COLOR_QUAN, but I would use the COLORS keyword and
restrict the number of output colors to something like 16 or
so. Then, I would use the split color table method you
tried previously, but now using the color table vectors
you get back from COLOR_QUAN. If all goes well, that should
work, although I have definitely NOT tried it just now.

I guess it wouldn't hurt to make a sacrifice and light
a candle for the programming gods before you start coding
it up, too. Or, you could put the money for the candle
into the fund for the 24-bit display. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: Liam Gumley on Tue, 13 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: davidf on Tue, 13 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: davidf on Tue, 13 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: rmlongfield on Tue, 13 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: Liam Gumley on Tue, 13 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: davidf on Tue, 13 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: steinhh on Tue, 13 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: rmlongfield on Tue, 13 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: davidf on Mon, 12 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: Liam Gumley on Mon, 12 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Display Gifs, each w/diff color tables? By: Liam Gumley on Mon, 12 July 1999 00:00

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