From: "Lluís Batlle i Rossell" <viriketo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] PNG and APE (cntd)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:23:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44506363.3070407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36acd81591ae44aee30ef39313a71dfd@proxima.alt.za>
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lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> I have a slightly OT question: is it reasonable that PNG versions of
> an image may be bigger than their GIF equivalent and (less
> sursprisingly) much bigger than their JPEG versions? I have not
> tested this theory, but I have had this reported to me.
I don't know if I understood correctly your question, but although GIF
uses LZW instead of zlib (LZ77 iirc), it can stand only for 256
different colors - hence it my be smaller than PNG, as PNG allows 32bit
colors fine (being 8 for alpha). JPEG is dependant on lossy compression
(at least the actual implementations; I think a lossless was proposed,
but I've never seen it), then sure it can be much smaller than PNG.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-27 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-27 4:47 lucio
2006-04-27 6:23 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell [this message]
2006-04-27 17:51 ` lucio
2006-04-27 18:24 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-04-27 18:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-27 19:26 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-27 19:58 ` Steve Simon
2006-04-27 21:13 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-04-27 22:05 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-28 5:00 ` lucio
2006-04-28 18:31 ` jmk
2006-04-27 20:02 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-27 19:59 ` lucio
2006-04-27 6:36 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-04-27 6:39 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-04-27 11:43 ` Lluís Batlle
2006-04-27 11:53 ` Harri Haataja
2006-04-27 12:25 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-27 18:18 ` lucio
2006-04-27 18:27 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-04-27 19:56 ` lucio
2006-04-27 12:25 ` Russ Cox
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