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From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Ian Farquhar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HAM-E not IFF??
Message-ID: <163@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Date: 24 Jan 90 12:24:28 GMT
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In article <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.
>
So, why don't we define a few new compression standards.  The currently
implimented one is a simple run length encoding system that exploits
scan coherence.  What I would like to do is support area coherence.

Suggestions, anyone?

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