Talk:Indexed color

message: ... in my humble opinion. --SunnySideOfStreet (talk) 20:19, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it. :) --jacobolus (t) 21:32, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article needs be rewritten completely 

message: Hey! I'm the guy who mainly built the "List of palettes" article in its current form, based on a somewhat mangled previous article. Yes, I recognize that, beyond a mere (and colorful!) list, the article should be rewriten and reordered. Right now, I'm working in a splitted series of the article, with a base article entry for the current "List of palettes" along with the following: "List of monochrome and RGB palettes", "List of software palettes", "List of 8-bit computer hardware palettes", "List of 16-bit computer hardware palettes" and "List of videogame consoles palettes". Along with proper rewriting, I did convenient survey, I provide a lot of technical info and references, and even I did a lot of samples of high-quality simulated images. These days, I'm building the samples in my Sandbox pages, so someday all of you will see the results. As you know, to do good articles requires time.
But I think these list articles should not be merged with articles depicting what a computer palette is, or a CLUT is (you know, they are not the same). I vote for revisiting these articles if you think they are somewhat ambiguous. Yours. Ricardo Cancho Niemietz (talk) 14:52, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I did it! no more further discussion about "Indexed color" vs. "List of palettes" expected.Ricardo Cancho Niemietz (talk) 04:59, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Okay, re: CLUT, do you really think that there's enough non-overlapping material between CLUT and indexed color, for the topics to warrant two separate articles?  It seems to me that a CLUT is an essential aspect of any indexed color scheme, which means that it should be a sub-section, until its content becomes too long to fit in a section.  --jacobolus (t) 01:00, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Well, I'm not actually the CLUT article's author, but my own opinion is that, although related, CLUT and Indexed colors should not be mixed together: CLUT is always a hardware resource of a given display adapter, mainly related to calibration (gamma, white temperature, etc. —although in Commodore Amiga, the color palette's hardware is also known as CLUT), while Indexed color is a generic way to handle the colors of the images in a limited fashion, and it can be implemented on hardware (as in pre-High Color graphic cards and devices) and/or be used exclusively with image files, depending on context. So, as I said before, I still prefer two separate articles, cross-linked for convenience. If all of us follow your criteria, many of the articles of the Wikipedia should be merged with the yours, from Color spaces to gamma correction, from bitmap to bit-plane, from Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) to palette (computing), and so on, due all of them are more or less closely related with the Indexed color concept. It's up to you to include citing sections with summaries of these related articles, and links of the style "Main article:...", but *please*, Do not predate them!Ricardo Cancho Niemietz (talk) 12:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite of "List of Palettes" article is running now! 

message: Hi. Along with the List of palettes series of articles, I completely rewrote the Palette (computing) article, which was a mere stub. Now, it is extended, and clarifies many usages of the word "palette" in computing, so it can act as a "base article" for those related (CLUT, Indexed color, List of palettes, palette entry, color depth and so on). At proper time, these articles should be expanded as well, in order to sharp definitions around every topic. And I know, palette's article still lacks references, be patient (or include them by yourself!). -Ricardo Cancho Niemietz (talk) 19:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Palette (computing)]] article enterely rewritten 

message: Hi. I rewrote the entire article almost from scratch. Now, the stub tag has been removed and the merging suggestions tags along, due to the extended and clarified article left little room for merging. Greetings. -Ricardo Cancho Niemietz (talk) 21:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good piece of work.  I found a few sources, and took out the alternative terms that I couldn't find sources for, and did a few edits.  Still would be nice to see most of the contents sourced. Dicklyon (talk) 01:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Great!  Still can use some inevitable wiki touch-ups, etc., but generally quite a bang-up job.  --jacobolus (t) 01:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Indeed, it needs more than just "touch-ups". There is a lot of good content here, but the phrasing makes it clear that the author is not a native English speaker -- word orders and idioms look very Spanish. No offense meant. I tried cleaning up two paragraphs but there's much more to do. --Rpresser 13:59, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indexed color article completely rewritten 

message: The table of file format support indicates that GIF files only support 8-bits-per-pixel. This does not seem correct to me, as Photoshop (and other tools) allow one to change the number of colors in the palette. This results in drastically different file sizes for large images, implying that not only has the color palette table been reduced, but that each pixel in the image (prior to compression) is using a smaller number of bits.
Further, the GIF87a specs (http://www.martinreddy.net/gfx/2d/GIF87a.txt) use the phrase "# bits per pixel" repeatedly, describing a range of values from 0 to 7 representing 0 to 8 bits. (For example, see page 5.)
I humbly submit that this table is either wrong or very misleading, and suggest that the GIF row be updated to show a value of "Yes" for 1-8 bits per pixel.
216.228.112.21 (talk) 18:13, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palette support by GIFs 

message: I have removed some detail from Framebuffer#Color_palette that I assume is already covered here. I may have been a bit cavalier and it is possible some of this deleted material would be useful here. ~Kvng (talk) 20:34, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlap in [[Framebuffer#Color_palette]]