From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:25:47 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <> References: <> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] radar for plan 9, and two draw funnies. Topicbox-Message-UUID: aeb9cd78-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat Dec 12 09:59:41 EST 2009, rsc@swtch.com wrote: > > why would m8 != r8g8b8? > > m8 is approximately r2g2b2. > you don't have nearly enough > precision to do image compositing > and get useful results. that makes sense. > a better question would be why > you are using m8. jpg without -t defaults to outputting m8, even for a jpg without a colormap, even for photos. i didn't realize that, and i'm not doing that any more. still, why is red getting turned to cyan? - erik