On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:28:22 +0200, Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Monday, 29 December 2003 20:59, Norman Vine wrote: > > But just switching to PNG would make a substantial reduction in > > the package size and would not add much to the load time > > The PNG compression is not as good (size wise) as jpg but it's > lossless which is great were we need to retain original image quality. > > In one test I found that jpg can get a compression ratio of about 9:1 > without any noticable artifacts on scenery textures. (90% quality in > GIMP) The same texture file compresses at about 2:1 using PNG. > Maybe not ground breaking stuff but certainly better than raw image > files and it's free of any patents. ..the patent was filed on October 27, 1986, so worst case, its just another 3 year gif kinda boycott. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
