Methods for creating a color palette from an image?

Well the simplest approach is simply to look over the image and create a dictionary mapping pixel colours to ints. For each pixel, if its colour is in the dictionary, increment its count. If it isn't, add it with a count of 1.

This gives you the number of times each colour appears in the image.

Well the simplest approach is simply to look over the image and create a dictionary mapping pixel colours to ints. For each pixel, if its colour is in the dictionary, increment its count. If it isn't, add it with a count of 1.

This gives you the number of times each colour appears in the image. Then, sort by count and you will find the 256 most-common colours in the image. Those colours make up your palette.

Then, iterate over the image again. For each pixel, find the palette colour which is closest to that pixel's colour, and set that pixel's index to that palette index. That will be a good "first go", but in images with a lot of colours it might not do such a good job of finding the palette.In the dictionary phase, you may want to combine colours which are "close enough" to avoid having a lot of very similar colours all scoring poorly, even though together they would be very common.

For better results, you will want to look at dithering techniques.

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