different between palettize vs paletted

English

Alternative forms

• palettise

Etymology

palette +? -ize

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl?ta?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?ta?z/, /?pæl?ta?z/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t?ez/
• Homophones: palatize, palletize

Verb

palettize (third-person singular simple present palettizes, present participle palettizing, simple past and past participle palettized)

1. (transitive, computer graphics) To encode (an image) efficiently by mapping its pixels to a palette containing only those colours that are actually present in the image.

Related terms

• palettization

English

Etymology

palette +? -ed

Adjective

paletted (not comparable)

1. (computer graphics) palettized
   • 2004, Ralph Barbagallo, Wireless Game Development in Java with MIDP 2.0 (page 304)

     As long as your bitmap is paletted, most programs will reduce the palette down to the fewest colors. However, it may be a good idea to help it along by changing the bit depth to the lowest possible.

   • 2008, Oliver Deussen, Daniel Keim, Dietmar Saupe, Vision, modeling, and visualization 2008: proceedings (page 220)

     Unfortunately, the Intel 2700G provides no hardware support for compressed paletted textures. If compressed paletted textures are used, they are internally expanded to their uncompressed representation.

Anagrams

• peltated