[Coco] Coco3 CMP color swatches

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

Robert Sherwood wrote:
> 
> Of course, you also have to consider the effects of converting the image 
> to GIF or JPEG as well.  The only way I know to be certain of having 
> perfect colour reproduction in a digitized image is to provide it in a 
> 24-bit uncompressed format (such as BMP or TIFF.  PNG might work - I'm 
> not as familiar with that.)
> 
> All that being said, I think it's certainly worthwhile to go ahead with 
> the experiment and see how the results compare to the previous MESS 
> screenshot.  It's probably also worth it to try the same with the 
> digital and film cameras as stated sometime earlier.  Although with 
> film, the printing process introduces way too many output variables to 
> be very accurate for producing swatch-like samples.  Either slides, or a 
> scan from negatives would be the best option here.
> 
> --Rob
> 
>> Allen Huffman wrote:
>>>
>>> What happens if you just grab a frame using a TV digitizer? (With
>>> composite inputs.)
>>>
>>>         -- Allen

	What about hooking a scope up to the RGB lines and seeing what the DACs 
actually put out for the 4 values and using that to guide the conversion 
from 2 bit to 6 or 8?

					kevin