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- From: tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hanson)
- Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH to do online electronic publication
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.170517.15032@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Keywords: SIGGRAPH, electronic publication, online, experimental
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- References: <1993Jan7.195626.21916@koko.csustan.edu> <1993Jan8.152029.20363@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:05:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.152029.20363@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan7.195626.21916@koko.csustan.edu>, rsc@altair.csustan.edu (Steve Cunningham) writes:
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- |> This is a good example when GIF may be better than JPEG, and might
- |> even be the optimal choice for this content. GIF does a VERY good job
- |> compressing monochrome images, while JPEG was not designed for this
- |> application and it shows. While GIF is limited to 256 colors,
- |> quantization and dithering can provide an acceptable (if not optimal)
- |> image form 24 bit color, and would probably be a better compromise.
- |>
- |> If a less commonly used format is acceptable, I suppose compressed 24
- |> bit TIFF would be an even better (but larger) solution than GIF.
- |>
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- Note that TIFF supports 1 bit monochrome and 8 bit color indexed just the
- same as GIF. People could use various color resolution TIFF files as their
- needs indicated.
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