Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!pawl!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: HAM-E not IFF?? Message-ID: <#JWC++@rpi.edu> Date: 24 Jan 90 02:24:16 GMT References: <00363@sarek.UUCP> <4710008@hpfcdq.HP.COM> <6399@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 24 In <6399@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ln63wkp@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (The Priss) writes: -> Yeah that would be nice except that 24 bit files can get quite -> large. I like the idea of storing an image at it's maximum -> resolution for future generations, but, you can only store so many -> huge 24 bit files in a small 40Mb HD (like mine). Besides, the -> conversion step may be slow and that effect you want to avoid when -> running slideshows, etc. No flames, just an observation.... Ham-E pictures are currently (or will be, anyway) stored as hi-res 4-bitplane pictures. But the picture itself (after Black Box gets done with it) is low-res, and only the palette is 24-bit to begin with (the picture is 8-bit). What's the difference space wise between a 640-across 4-bit picture and a 320-across 8-bit picture with 64 extra bytes of color information? They'll compress to basically the same size.... -- Robert Jude Kudla "Famous? I'm not famous. People come up to me after a show and say 'Hey, Steve!'" -Jon Anderson