Re: Petty Civil Disobedience

[jamesd@echeque.com]

On Sun, 10 Mar 1996 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
> > I have added a pornographic image to my web site as an act of 
> > real civil disobedience.  I urge others to do the same.
> > 
> > In the course of doing this, I discovered that on windows, Netscape 
> > makes jpegs of naked pretty girls look like crap. 

At 11:40 AM 3/10/96 +0000, Ed Carp wrote:
> Check your screen resolution, and make sure it is displaying 256 colors 

It is not my screen, nor the image, but rather a very common defect in 
the way they have implemented Floyd Steinberg dithering.

They dither to the color cube, as does the Central Point Software file 
viewer, whose dithering program I wrote, but the Central point software 
file viewer does a vastly better job.
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