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Here are the sample images that appear in my May 1996 column.

Now, in order to show all of these images in one place, I cheated. What you're looking at below is a JPEG file saved in Photoshop's high-quality setting. Because this is a JPEG file, some minor compression artifacts may have been introduced.

Also, because the image below is a 24-bit image, it does not show the problem that arises when you use an adaptive palette on the Web. Specifically, the adaptive palette sample below looks better than it should--in fact, it looks the way it would in a multimedia authoring program. To see how the adaptive palette sample would really look on a typical Web page, go to the page "Adaptive Palettes and the Web Don't Mix."

To see the entire image below (with text captions), resize your browser window by clicking its zoom box.