On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Gabriel Roldan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I understand and yes, as I'm looking for support for tiles ovreall
>> image size is going to be smaller.
>> One thing I've read on those pages though is that the neuquant
>> algorithm can use a pixel interleave other than 1, they recommend like
>> 10.
>> Not that I'm pushing for it, just may be worth mentioning.
>
> Yeah, I played with that a few times, it works if the image you're trying
> to compress is raster, with little/no regularity.
> But if you are trying to display a road network with roads crossing at a right
> angle (very common in roman cities) there is a very good chance that the
> sampling will make the code skip important values.
>
> When I first discovered neuquant I was all fired up and wanted to
> include it in GeoServer right away, a deeper analysis of its shortcomings
> and a weekend spent looking at the code made me change my mind ;-)
>
> That's why I'm now backing more pngquant, seems to have all the markings
> for a real world solution that actually works (simple, efficient, good output)

excellent, thanks for sharing all these insights.
Gabriel
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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