Grayscales with XDRIVER

[Michael Shapiro]

The GRASS graphics drivers use color lookup tables (reserving about 15
colors for vector "overlays"). This means that images with more than
240 colors for a 256 color display can't fit all its colors into the
hardware lookup table. In order to display the image a 6x6x6 color cube
is loaded into the hardware color registers (ie fixed mode) and the
nearest color is used instead of the "true" color. If you have an image
with a grey scale color map, and that image has more than 240 colors
(eg 1-255), then you get 6 levels of grey. The only solution is to
rescale the image data into the range 1-240 and set a grey scale for
the rescaled image.

In response to:
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|When displaying grayscale images in the XDRIVER `monitor', I can only
|get about 6 levels of gray.  Changing the colormode with d.colormode
|has no effect.  I also recompiled other versions of XDRIVER with
|alternate (provided) Clr_table.c routines and saw no difference.
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|Is there no way get more than 6 grey levels in an X-window?
|(SunOS 4.1, openwindows 2.0)
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|Duane Wessels  <duane at pallas.pnl.gov | dwessels at sandbox.kenn.wa.us>
|Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington  +1 509 376-4461
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