Re: [Tutor] PIL's palette

2005-07-14 Thread D. Hartley
Peter, This does make the issue of palettes a lot clearer, thank you. I'll have to see if it is something I can apply to my present task. Thanks for your help, everyone! ~Denise ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: [Tutor] PIL's palette

2005-07-14 Thread Peter Szinek
Hello, D. Hartley wrote: >>Your palette is a LookUp Table (LUT) - it is also named like this in >>your prog ('lut') - which is a 768-long list (or as in this case, a list >>of 256 lists, every inner list has 3 elements - so again you have 768 >>elements). So 3x256 or 1x768 is just an implementatio

Re: [Tutor] PIL's palette

2005-07-14 Thread Kent Johnson
D. Hartley wrote: > Hello, everyone! > > I am trying to figure out what a palette actually is, how it works, > and what PIL's "putpalette()" does with a given data set (it has to be > a string, I believe). PIL's documentation says very close to nothing > at all, and googling it has given me sever

Re: [Tutor] PIL's palette

2005-07-14 Thread Peter Szinek
Can you pls send me the image you ar working with? D. Hartley wrote: >>Your palette is a LookUp Table (LUT) - it is also named like this in >>your prog ('lut') - which is a 768-long list (or as in this case, a list >>of 256 lists, every inner list has 3 elements - so again you have 768 >>elements

Re: [Tutor] PIL's palette

2005-07-14 Thread D. Hartley
> Your palette is a LookUp Table (LUT) - it is also named like this in > your prog ('lut') - which is a 768-long list (or as in this case, a list > of 256 lists, every inner list has 3 elements - so again you have 768 > elements). So 3x256 or 1x768 is just an implementation detail. Let's see > the

Re: [Tutor] PIL's palette

2005-07-14 Thread Peter Szinek
Hey, DH>I am trying to figure out what a palette actually is, how it works, I did this V long time ago (10+ years) in C-- (it was an embellished assembler) so don't kill me if this works other way in python/PIL, but as far as i remember, it worked like this: Your palette is a LookU

[Tutor] PIL's palette

2005-07-13 Thread D. Hartley
Hello, everyone! I am trying to figure out what a palette actually is, how it works, and what PIL's "putpalette()" does with a given data set (it has to be a string, I believe). PIL's documentation says very close to nothing at all, and googling it has given me several other examples of doing wha