Re: YUV format

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:20:55AM -0500, tterribe wrote:
> >For example, 16 bits -> 4 bits (4:1) reduces 65536 values to 16.
> >that's 1/4000th the resolution, not 1/4.
> 
> That's probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say.

If you say so.

> "bits" do not 
> correspond to "resolution" like that. Reducing resolution by 1/4 already 
> reduces four 8-bit values to one, a reduction of 1:16.8mln by your accounting, 

We were talking about color quantization, not resolution reduction.
What I said makes perfect sense in the most general case of scalar
quantization.

Monty
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