Re: Posting ascii art on the web
From Lennert Stock <len...@demon.nl>
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· 13 Feb 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:00:49 +0000, Moo-Juice <Be...@flag.demon.co.uk> wrote: >However, he is right. If we can imagine a 2 colour GIF file (black & >White), we instantly save 700 bytes on the global colour table, and then >the image descriptor block would be very small as it is simply encoding >long stretches of black or white. Admittadly, lots of interchanging >between black and white with obscure lengths will reduce compression, >but it will still be less than a GIF with a 3 x 256 byte colour table. > >Any image which has less colours will be smaller than it's counterpart, >for the simple reason it is using less bits per pixel than a colour one. >Monochrome is simply 1 bit per pixel, and then 2,4... etc for colours. >Considering the ASCII Art posted in to this group is monochrome, I can >see a considerable size difference in the resulting GIF file. Next, if you instead of 2 colors and pixels use the ascii map to mirror the pixels as close as possible, another size deduction can be realized. Uhuh..we just cycled the discussion I think.
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