On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:53:46 +1000, "jarbee" <d_j### [at] yahoocom>
wrote:
>The analogy I was thinking of is that of color quantization - which I have
>used Kohonen networks for. It gives a smooth blended palette of colors which
>works quite well. Quantizing a 24 bit image to 256 colors works very good,
>but I'm also getting good results mapping to 16 or so colors. There is stuff
>on the net about this but I can't remember the link. I was actually using
>mine to map image colors to wool colors, to create cross-stitch patterns of
>photos.

Is your software available anywhere ?? I know someone who's quite fond
of cross-stitching and paint-by-numbers who's actually asked me if it
was possible to convert an image (photo or computer art-work) to a
pattern for this. 

/Erkki

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