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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art.animation, 9 Jun 1994.
Re: Arnie Movie
In article <2t6bp6$i8...@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, Scott E Gilbert 
<sco...@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

>In article <2t2urr$12...@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, Dan Egnor 
><egn...@mince.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

>]Each frame is ~ 2K in size.  At 20fps, that's 2*20*3600*2 = 288000K, or
>]~ 300 megabytes for a 2-hour movie.  So I exaggerated a bit.

>Then again, these types of files compress really well.  I'll bet you could 
>get 10 to 1 compression and turn that into 30 megabytes.

With "gzip -9" the t2.txt file chops from 212850 bytes to 47533.  That's
a reduction of ~ 4.5, so the hypothetical movie would take between 50 and
100 megabytes ....

Dan

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Date: 9 Jun 1994 08:37:35 GMT
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