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- From: pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall)
- Subject: Re: Graphic format
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.132748.7630@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.nott.ac.uk
- Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
- References: <1993Jan25.165552.3741@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1993Jan26.123239.9166@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 13:27:48 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.123239.9166@cs.nott.ac.uk> dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave `geek' Gymer) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.165552.3741@cs.nott.ac.uk> pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall) writes:
- >[IFF mentioned in other quoted article]
- >>As for a graphics format, I guess GIF is slightly more appropriate,
- >>but I'm really not looking forward to dealing with them! - maybe we
- >>should just forget about graphics for the moment. (Not that I don't
- >>want to have to deal with them or anything!)
- >
- >Depending on the sort of images we're talking about, JPEG would get my
- >vote, since it's more `standard' in some wierd sort of way, and the
- >compression is vastly better for digitized images. For other types of
- >images, I'd say PPM and compress or zip (since the GNU folks now have
- >a Zip type program) would be a safer `lowest common denominator'
- >format.
- >
- >-- Dave
-
- To be honest - I'm going to have _real_ problems dealing with any form
- of bit-mapped colour graphics on the Atari, as people will want to use
- the higher resolutions for reading, and these only provide 4 or 2
- colours! Even the lowest res allows only 16 colours on-screen, and I
- really don't want to get into complicated dithering techniques, so I
- think everyone should be aware that a graphics standard might limit
- the systems for which the guide is workable. (Mind you, if it's only
- the Atari that's the problem everyone might just turn around and say
- "so what?" - but I don't think this is a healthy attitude!)
-
- Some kind of vector graphic system might be better - but this wouldn't
- allow any nice scanned images etc.
-
- Keith.
-
- As an aside, Dave - had you noticed that we're in the same place?!
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- "Mummy was an asteroid, Daddy was | Keith Marshall
- a small, non-stick kitchen utensil..." | pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk
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