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A Simple Method for Color Quantization: Octree Quantization

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New Trends in Computer Graphics

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A new method for filling a color table is presented that produces pictures of similar quality as existing methods, but requires less memory and execution time. All colors of an image are inserted in an octree, and this octree is reduced from the leaves to the root in such a way that every pixel has a well defined maximum error. The algorithm is described in PASCAL notation.

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  1. Austria

    M. Gervautz & W. Purgathofer

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  1. M. Gervautz
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  1. Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, Université de Genève, 12 rue du Lac, CH-1207, Genève, Switzerland

    Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

  2. Laboratoire d’Infographie, Département d’Informatique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Daniel Thalmann

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Gervautz, M., Purgathofer, W. (1988). A Simple Method for Color Quantization: Octree Quantization. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (eds) New Trends in Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83492-9_20

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