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- From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: JPEG compressions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.210651.13798@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 21:06:51 GMT
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- In my experience with JPEG, the more complex an image, the better it
- JPEGs. "Simple" scenes with broad colors show a type of "pixel noise"
- at transitions from one broad area of color to another. Logo-type images
- do not compress well, as text show this noise on edges. It is minimized
- with complex surface treatments and high quality anti-aliasing.
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- I've used JPEG successfully in two recent projects. The first one was
- a soap bubble, and I had to render it at home and transport the frames
- elsewhere to lay to tape. With a JPEG quality setting of 75 on 160
- 24-bit images at 756 by 486 res, I managed to fil the whole thing on
- two floppys! This worked because the images had a very high level of
- anti-aliasing and the bubble enviorment map was very complex, but had
- areas that were similar enough to one another that it could compress
- well.
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- The second project involved a putting a fireplace into a scene. The
- idea of *building* fire for a 4-second effect in a holiday scene was
- insane. So I found a tape of a fireplace and frame-grabbed 120 frames
- at a quality of 50, and brought them home. I left the images in JPEG
- format until each frame was to render, then un-JPEG'd one to use as
- that frames texture map an then over-wrote the IFF on the next frame.
-
- It's a wonderful tool if you can understand it strengths and
- weaknesses.
-
- Chris Williams
- chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu
- katefans@chinet.chi.il.us
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