вспомнил фамилиё - Сяолин Ву, вот тебе код:
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C Implementation of Wu's Color Quantizer )v. 2:
)see Graphics Gems vol. II, pp. 126-133:
Author{ Xiaolin Wu
Dept. of Computer Science
Univ. of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6A 5B7
wu@csd.uwo.ca
Algorithm{ Greedy orthogonal bipartition of RGB space for variance
minimization aided by inclusion-exclusion tricks.
For speed no nearest neighbor search is done. Slightly
better performance can be expected by more sophisticated
but more expensive versions.
The author thanks Tom Lane at Tom_Lane@G.GP.CS.CMU.EDU for much of
additional documentation and a cure to a previous bug.
Free to distribute, comments and suggestions are appreciated.
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http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~wu/cq.c