On 26 Jun, DrMartin.Weber wrote:
I took several months' time to compare nearly all available color
quantization algorithms. Shurely GIMP's Median Cut is good but not the
best. SQC (http://www-dbv.cs.uni-bonn.de/quant/) is really the best
one available and it is also fast. I have some code
The aim of GIMP is not only to be as good as Photoshop but become better
than this program. So it would be fine to implement features that even
commercial programs don't have. The common color quantization algorithms
have many disadvantages, but there is a very new called Spatial Color