Is this an example of Poe's Law? GIF's palette size is 256, there are 256 shades...

nitrogen on Dec 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is Color Banding? And what is it not?

Is this an example of Poe's Law? GIF's palette size is 256, there are 256 shades of gray, so no GIF artifacts should be present. GIF doesn't have artifacts anyway; those would come from the dithering/palletization step before compression.