From a99fa8992e1860b29395f1a6688802d5ce7cbfe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cristy Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:27:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] ... --- www/history.html | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/history.html b/www/history.html index 2a473b2b9..387e819e5 100644 --- a/www/history.html +++ b/www/history.html @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
-- John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand
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ImageMagick started with a request from my DuPont supervisor, Dr. David Pensak, to display computer-generated images on a monitor only capable of showing 256 unique colors simultaneously.

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ImageMagick started with a request from my DuPont supervisor, Dr. David Pensak, to display computer-generated images on a monitor only capable of showing 256 unique colors simultaneously.

In 1987, monitors that could display 24-bit true color images were rare and quite expensive. There were a plethora of chemists and biologists at DuPont, but very were few computer scientists to confer with. Instead, I turned to Usenet for help, and posted a request for an algorithm to reduce 24-bit images to 256 colors. Paul Raveling of the USC Information Sciences Institute responded, with not only a solution, but one that was already in source code and available from USC's FTP site. Over the course of the next few years, I had frequent opportunities to get help with other vexing computer science problems I encountered in the course of doing my job at DuPont. Eventually I felt compelled to give thanks for the help I received from the knowledgeable folks on Usenet. I decided to freely release the image processing tools I developed to the world so that others could benefit from my efforts.

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