Re: [GD-General] software for artwork

[Javier A. <ja...@py...>]

Mickael Pointier <mpo...@ed...> wrote:

> Standard quantization algorithms create artefacts, but thats not
> visually to disturbing when applied to color components, surprisingly
> if you extend these algorithm to 4d, the final result is really,
> really crappy... 
> 
> I think the reasons are multiples, the first beeing that when A tend
> toward 0, you do not really care about the true values of RGB
> components (they are almost invisible at this point), so a lot of
> colors are used in semi translucent tints, that could have been used
> in nearly opaque areas. 

Yeah that's one of the places where premultiplied alpha textures help...

  Javier Arevalo
  Pyro Studios