Re: [dev] Looking for simple, alpha supporting image format

From: FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:13:44 +0200

On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:09:50 -0400
Charlie Murphy <cmsmurp00_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> I take it back; you're absolutely right. An image by Buch from
> opengameart.org compresses well as an imagefile.
>
> In this case:
> * the gzip imagefile is a little bigger than the PNG.
> * the bzip2 imagefile is a little smaller than the PNG.
>
> Attached are the files.

I love this approach! Instead of trying to compress the image in the
format itself (like PNG), we just leave it to the compressor to
determine certain similarities and patterns.
I suppose LZMA will give even better results.

Cheers

FRIGN

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FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de>
Received on Thu Jul 17 2014 - 11:13:44 CEST

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