From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Steve Jolly"
OK. This is going to be bloody impossible to do entirely in text without attachments, but I'll give it a try. :-)
I read it while sober.
Didn't make much sense.
I just read it while inebriated.
Didn't make any sense.
Can't I just think of it as a roll of pennies on a table top and get on with life?
I think what he was trying to tell you is that jpeg does not look for similar shapes but instead slices the picture in small 8x8 pixel chunks and simplify these ('ah yes, this 8x8 block is all yellow, well, nearly enough at least, I'll just jot down 'all yellow block here' and ignore the slight color differences in this block. Next block, going from yellow to slightly green, well, not exactly but no one will note the difference if I just make it like it's going from yellow to slightly green, thats ok. Next one...')
The image format for your pennies are called fractal compressors. There are some of these around, but they are so dead slow and uncommon no one really uses them.
Was my translation ok for you?
Sam
