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GIF has 256-colour palettes, but they're not restricted to 8-bit colour depth, and you can have a dedicated palette per tile, so you can, theoretically, use ful
by creshal 11y ago
GIF has 256-colour palettes, but they're not restricted to 8-bit colour depth, and you can have a dedicated palette per tile, so you can, theoretically, use full 24-bit colour depth.
If you don't mind the resulting image file being bigger than a BMP.
- alanh 11y agoHuh — is the ability to use a separate palette per tile often done in practice? I have used quite a few gif creation tools over the years, and they all seemed to support only a fixed palette...
- creshal 11y agoNo, because it's inefficient as hell (I wasn't joking when I said "less efficient than uncompressed bitmaps", it really is), and not all viewers support it.