To keep interest up, some screenies (of engine improvements)
The processed images use 256 different colors, and also notice the resizing algorithm taking place in LIC 1.1 engine (which actually is OK, but not great).
Original image:
LIC 1.0 image:
LIC 1.1 image:
GIMP version (for comparison) (linear resize first, then pal-optimization):
Yet, above images can be greatly improved with dithering (LIC 1.1 image with dithering):
Well, expect a release of LIC 1.1 quite soon!
Also, I tried use some algorithm that ImageMagick uses for palette optimization.