Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet

Post by _gcrv » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 8:39 PM UTC

cjensen wrote: post #95

HEIF already exists as a standard [1] with comparable compression [2]. What does Pik hope to do better? (And please don't say "patent free" unless you are certain Pik will not infringe on those same patents) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For... [2] https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/technical.html

Post by cjensen » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 8:42 PM UTC

mattnewton wrote: post #100

cjensen wrote: post #95

HEIF already exists as a standard [1] with comparable compression [2]. What does Pik hope to do better? (And please don't say "patent free" unless you are certain Pik will not infringe on those same patents) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For... [2] https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/technical.html

Maybe "The software currently requires an AVX2 and FMA capable CPU, e.g. Haswell." holds the secret? Some kind of experimental test bed for using CPU vector instructions to speed up compression/decompression? Disclaimer: I have no idea what I am talking about. For all I know possible use of these instructions is already a feature of HEIF and that statement is irrelevant.

Post by Ajedi32 » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 8:44 PM UTC

s0me0ne wrote: post #96

Now if APNG would gather some steam, high quality animated fully alpha transparent images would be nice. Gif's 256 color and 1 level transparency is ok, but to do better work we need something like APNG, although not sure how well it compresses.

Post by DonbunEf7 » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 8:49 PM UTC

DannyBee wrote: post #45

TulliusCicero wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not true, at least not in California. But if you made it with Google resources then yes they own it.

"That's not true, at least not in California." People, for the most part, very badly misunderstand what california law says. For most large diversified corporations, the corporation will own all of it, because it will "Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer;" Note that it's com…

Post by DannyBee » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 9:04 PM UTC

DonbunEf7 wrote: post #107

DannyBee wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"That's not true, at least not in California." People, for the most part, very badly misunderstand what california law says. For most large diversified corporations, the corporation will own all of it, because it will "Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer;" Note that it's com…

Since some folks have trouble reading between the lines: Google considers all code possibly relevant to its business interests, and treats employees (in)appropriately. The only way to win is to not have ideas.