IndexColorModel : Java Glossary

2007-11-10 by Roedy Green ©1996-2009 Canadian Mind Products
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IndexColorModel: IndexColorModel lets you encode images in 1/4 the space of images encoded with 32-bit colours. The catch is, you must compose your image from a maxium of 256 colours. That way each pixel can be encoded in 8-bits as an index into the colour map (aka palette) to find the corresponding 32-bit colour. Here is how you use it:
Here in what the png file it creates looks like:

BitBlt
BufferedImage
Canvas
flicker
frothing
getResourceAsStream
gif
GIF Encoder
Image
ImageInfo
ImageIO
Imagero
ImageViewer: makes an Image into a component
JAI
JPEG Encoder
jpg
metadata
paint
palette
png
PNG Encoder
resource

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