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Re: Mr TIFF

#52

Post by csar »

Me: “This link can’t possibly be about what I think it might be about.” Me, seconds later: “Yes it is!!”

Re: Mr TIFF

#53

Post by jack1243star »

Please do not let my comment take away your enjoyment of the article.

I hate to nit-pick on such a beautiful story but that it ended with a faux-Ghibli profile picture is just sad.

How can someone working so hard to humanize technology and preserve history, justify this soul-less commodification of art? Do the animators deserve to get treated as anonymous model trainers without their consent, names and frames lost in a dead ocean of bit-vectors?

Re: Mr TIFF

#55

Post by hellojohnbuck »

jack1243star wrote: post #53

Please do not let my comment take away your enjoyment of the article. I hate to nit-pick on such a beautiful story but that it ended with a faux-Ghibli profile picture is just sad. How can someone working so hard to humanize technology and preserve history, justify this soul-less commodification of art? Do the animators deserve to get treated as anonymous model trainers without their consent, names and frames lost in…

my kids made the avatar so...sorry if it triggers

Re: Mr TIFF

#56

Post by hellojohnbuck »

OisinMoran wrote: post #8

If you had told me an article ostensibly about a file format would have me teary-eyed by the end I wouldn't have believed you. This is beautiful, thank you!

Thanks oisin, it's a beautiful story and his ex-wife gave me permission to share.

Re: Mr TIFF

#57

Post by 4ndrewl »

The great thing about TIF was it's extensibility. Flexible (data could be stored as tiles or in stripes), multiple compression options etc.

Well documented spec, easy to bolt on extras either as public tags - GeoTIFFs added projection metadata - or private, for your own needs.

Back in the day, to improve a desktop application's performance I found it was simple to create a custom reader and writer to handle cases where tiles were completely one single colour removing the need to decompress at run time.

Thank you TIFf!

Re: Mr TIFF

#58

Post by DroneBetter »

hellojohnbuck wrote: post #51
lanyard-textile wrote: post #38

:) Pleased to see the wikipedia change landed without drama. It’s still there as of writing.

i crossed my fingers for the first 24 hours but i now think admins and mod, to their credit, understand it's the truth.

the article shows scans of the research reports listing only Carlsen as their author, you could have just linked to one in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page to support his sole inventorhood, right

Re: Mr TIFF

#59

Post by sllabres »

4ndrewl wrote: post #57

The great thing about TIF was it's extensibility. Flexible (data could be stored as tiles or in stripes), multiple compression options etc. Well documented spec, easy to bolt on extras either as public tags - GeoTIFFs added projection metadata - or private, for your own needs. Back in the day, to improve a desktop application's performance I found it was simple to create a custom reader and writer to handle cases whe…

And the (early) availability of well made library, LibTIFF by Sam Leffler. I used it extensively from 1995 on, but only found out that according to Wikipedia is dates back to 1988!

Re: Mr TIFF

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Post by rzzzt »

adzm wrote: post #16
nullhole wrote: post #9

Don't have much to add except to mention again that the magic number for TIF is 42, and it's 42 because of the meaning of 42: https://web.archive.org/web/20210108174645/https://www.adobe... Bytes 2-3 An arbitrary but carefully chosen number (42) that further identifies the file as a TIFF file

And here is the author himself confirming that in the Wikipedia talk page for TIFF! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:TIFF/Archive_1#h-Source_f...

Are talk pages accepted as a source for the same article?
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