Re: New Paintworks $C2 Animations

[scott@ne3005.reston.ingr.com (Scott Gentry)]

90taobri@wave.scar (Brian Tao) writes:

>    Rather than using error diffusion, try using just Closest Match. 
>Usually that produces good results, but your animation file shrinks
>dramatically.  The error diffusion really inflates the size of the
>animation file because so many pixels change from frame to frame due the
>random nature of the dithering.  Try converting it using Closest Match and
>you'll see that not only do your animations come out much smaller (1/3 to
>1/10 the size), but they run much more smoothly (less pixels to redraw per
>frame and you don't have to resort to DG's virtual play mode).

This is true, generally, however, I've made color animations from video
which were processed by Allison and used its error diffusion dithering
and they came out pretty good (and small, too).
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