[51847] in Cypherpunks
Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamesd@echeque.com)
Sun Mar 10 13:23:26 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:16:08 -0800
To: Ed Carp <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
From: jamesd@echeque.com
Cc: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>, cypherpunks@toad.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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