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Re: The Mavica (was Re: ThrowBots elements are cool)
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Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:01:07 GMT
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:41:56 GMT, "Mike Faunce" <mfaunce@earthlink.net>
wrote:

As a test, I just took a 1024x768x8bit .bmp that was on my laptop (came with
the IBM) and converted it to .jpg using various settings:

Starting with a 256-color image probably won't give you the best
comparision.  If you've got a 24-bit image 'lying around', try your
tests on that one.

There's also a variation of JPEG, called (in Paint Shop Pro)
"progressive encoding".  Does anyone know what this is?

Steve



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  Re: The Mavica (was Re: ThrowBots elements are cool)
 
(...) Isn't that the kind of JPG that you can put on the web and have it load a bit at a time (bad description) ? (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
  Re: The Mavica (was Re: ThrowBots elements are cool)
 
(...) I've been facing some jpgs throughout the web which like the old "interlaced" gifs, (showing up on the page as a whole but very coarse image at the time of opening the page, and improves itself as d/l continue). I've also heard or read (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)

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  Re: The Mavica (was Re: ThrowBots elements are cool)
 
I don't know if this is common knowledge or not ... I know I found it the hard way: jpeg does not necessarily mean "lossy" compression. You can (with a conversion program, I use Firehand Ember), convert from .xxx to .jpg without loosing information. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)

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