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Re: color_quan - how for exactly 256 colors? [message #36681]

Thu, 16 October 2003 08:50

David Fanning
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Oliver Thilmann writes:

> color_quan seems no viable choice: the statistical
> method does not produce exact results

What does this mean!? By definition, there will be
no "exact" results when you sample 16.7 million colors
down to 256. It just, uh..., mathematically can't be
done. :-)

Cheers,

David

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