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- From: dimitrov@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
- Subject: Re: announcing GIFBLAST 1.1 - a GIF compressor (new & improved)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.051716.23101@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
- Keywords: GIF,compressor,lossless
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- Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:17:16 GMT
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- gill@physics.ubc.ca (Arnold Gill) writes:
- >dimitrov@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Isaac Dimitrovsky) writes:
- >> GIFBLAST is a compressor designed especially for GIF files.
- >
- > Just tried it out -- it compressed as promised. However, the
- > decompression does not produce the same file as the original. It
- > had a different file length, and using fc game me about 10 non-alignments
- > (on a 65k GIF). However, there doesn't seem to be a loss in the image,
- > at least not from casual viewing.
- > Is the decompression different than the original file?
- > If so, should this be fixed?
-
- The reason for this is that the GIF standard for image encoding is
- not completely fixed, i.e. the same image can produce two slightly
- different GIF files depending on how the GIF encoding is done.
- So, when you compress and decompress you may get a GIF file that is
- not byte for byte identical to the original, but the image should be
- preserved exactly. You can verify that the image does not change at
- all by converting the two files to TIFF or PBM formats and comparing.
-
- Isaac Dimitrovsky (dimitrov@lab.ultra.nyu.edu)
- "Sincerity is *the* most important thing in show business -
- so once you learn to fake that you've got it made."
- - Joe Franklin
-