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Don't we already have WebP?
Yes but webp hasn't taken off as much as some would like as a defacto standard. BPG looks good upon cursory inspection. It seems to be more efficient than WebP and supports 42-bit color. It also has .png's features of transparency and lossless compression although I didn't see anything mentioned about animation to replace .gif. Bonus: since it's based on h.265 hardware support will come naturally and should be just a…
EDIT: I didn't expect this comment to be so popular and feel like I've hijacked the thread a little - sorry. Feel free to continue at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706850 I would much rather someone revived the Fractal Image format, which is now out of patent. It's very expensive to encode, but that's nowhere near as big a problem as it used to be. It's very fast to decode, very small, and the files are resol…
They have a 6-minute figure on their page. I wonder what modern hardware could do with it? Anybody care to give it a whirl?
Don't we already have WebP?
WebP is in some ways superior, in particular because it has a lossless option like PNG. [Edit: NOPE, I was mistaken. ] I think it's kind of a shame that it hasn't caught on all that well. Maybe it's a fantasy, but I'd sure like to consolidate all web images into a single widely-supported and open source format. Ah, to dream...
Does anyone know if he has a day job or does he just lock himself away and work on these interesting projects?
EDIT: I didn't expect this comment to be so popular and feel like I've hijacked the thread a little - sorry. Feel free to continue at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706850 I would much rather someone revived the Fractal Image format, which is now out of patent. It's very expensive to encode, but that's nowhere near as big a problem as it used to be. It's very fast to decode, very small, and the files are resol…
http://www.verrando.com/pulcini/gp-uw1.html They have a 6-minute figure on their page. I wonder what modern hardware could do with it? Anybody care to give it a whirl?
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Well you can think of it as a tag name limited to 4 ascii characters if you like.
Yes, that makes it even stranger. Why use an unsigned 4-byte integer when tags are mapped to a number internally. Unless they anticipate to map more than 2^8-1 or 2^16-1 different tags. Maybe I'm reading it wrong. extension_tag ue7(32) ... 'extension_tag' is the extension tag. The following values are defined: 1: EXIF data. PS. I think I understand now. It's just meant as a shortcut. Not sure why this is done when EX…
Don't we already have WebP?
WebP is in some ways superior, in particular because it has a lossless option like PNG. [Edit: NOPE, I was mistaken. ] I think it's kind of a shame that it hasn't caught on all that well. Maybe it's a fantasy, but I'd sure like to consolidate all web images into a single widely-supported and open source format. Ah, to dream...
I appreciate the historical tradition of using the photo of beautiful young Lena Söderberg as a test image, but it's time to move on. It's fun for us hetero males, but like it or not, this sends a message to young women that they aren't welcome in this field. I wish Fabrice Bellard would have left them out of the demo set. Having said that, all those demo photos do look good. I was wondering how we were going to see…
I find your comment a bit strange. I am an heterosexual male and I find this picture utterly uninteresting from a sexual point of view. To me, the appeal of using this pictures is sheer seventies nostalgia... I'm too young to have been alive in 1973 but I'm old enough to remember gawking in awe at the wall of the computer room adorned with output from the first desktop color printer I ever heard of or the first laser printer I ever saw. The example picture used was Lena. The picture reminds me of old computer rooms... I don't even know who the model is and I don't even find her pretty.
By all means use a better picture... But when a Hello World moment is required on a printer, this one is a very strong contender.