changeset 4853:74342058fc9d libavformat

Explain the purpose of the wc3_pal_lookup and the formula that was used to calculate it.
author reimar
date Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:08:16 +0000
parents ecf9f13948f1
children 28a0c59a9625
files wc3movie.c
diffstat 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/wc3movie.c	Sat Apr 11 18:58:55 2009 +0000
+++ b/wc3movie.c	Sat Apr 11 20:08:16 2009 +0000
@@ -72,7 +72,18 @@
 
 } Wc3DemuxContext;
 
-/* bizarre palette lookup table */
+/**
+ * palette lookup table that does gamma correction
+ *
+ * can be calculated by this formula:
+ * for i between 0 and 252 inclusive:
+ * wc3_pal_lookup[i] = pow(i / 256.0, 0.8) * 256;
+ * values 253, 254 and 255 are all 0xFD
+ * calculating this at runtime should not cause any
+ * rounding issues, the maximum difference between
+ * the table values and the calculated doubles is
+ * about 0.497527
+ */
 static const unsigned char wc3_pal_lookup[] = {
   0x00, 0x03, 0x05, 0x07, 0x09, 0x0B, 0x0D, 0x0E,
   0x10, 0x12, 0x13, 0x15, 0x16, 0x18, 0x19, 0x1A,