Re: Convert 3200

[Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com>]

Daniel Webster <dwebster@monmouth.com> wrote:

: As I said to Joe, I will send you the pictures and my results from
: Convert 3200 and other programs.  Anyone else interested can have them,
: just Email me.

There must be some truth to the adage - "Beauty is in the eye of 
the beholder" - because to me, the 16 color conversion that I did with 
Convert 3200 of the GIF you sent looked just fine to me. In fact, I also 
converted the GIF using Prism and SuperConvert, and of the three graphics, I 
personally thought that the one achieved using Convert 3200 was the best 
of the lot.

That said, the graphics all did look a little different, depending on 
which program was used. With Convert 3200 in 16 colors, the colors were 
solid, whereas with the other conversion programs, there were lots of 
dots on screen that I suppose were supposed to produce some type of 
textured look. 

Is that what you refer to as the problem?

If so, I'm sure Antoine can explain it probably better than I can, but it 
looks like all those dots were removed by Convert 3200 when reducing the 
number of colors from 256 to 16.   

In any case, the 256 mode graphic produced by Convert 3200 had all those 
textured dots (or whatever you want to call them) and since you said your 
intention was to produce graphics using 256 colors, I'm not quite sure 
what the problem is. After all, the 256 color graphic produced by Convert 
3200 looked (to me) just like the original GIF.

Joe Kohn
Publisher, Convert 3200

http://www.crl.com/~joko