[Coco] 44-color display mode code images available

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 08:56:29PM -0600, Joel Ewy wrote:
> On 03/08/2013 02:11 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 01:34:42PM -0600, Joel Ewy wrote:
> >>On 03/04/2013 08:39 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >>>On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 06:40:03PM -0600, Joel Ewy wrote:
> >>>>On 03/03/2013 04:44 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >>>>>...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>http://vdgtricks.blogspot.com/2013/03/curiouser-and-curiouser.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Enjoy!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>John
> >>>>
> ...
> 
> A trick I've found for bringing out detail in converted photos is to
> run the original image through something like the 'cartoonify'
> filter in GIMP.  This will draw dark lines and outlines where the
> detailed parts of the image would be.  This helps when the
> difference between two areas of the picture are in subtle shades of
> color that aren't well distinguished in a relatively low color
> display, while still allowing through what coloration there is in
> the picture.  Yes, it looks a little more cartoonish, but it will
> anyway with this kind of display.  But it does make it a little
> easier to see what the image is supposed to be.  This also works
> well when quantizing images to the CoCo 3's regular 16-color
> palette.

Hey, that is a cool trick.  I found some cartooning scripts that use
the ImageMagick commands.  I'll have to consider if/how to incorporate
those into the repository...

Thanks!

John
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