Jpeg 2000 has wavelet coding and progressive loading so you can stop at the desired resolution (if you decode on the read thread). Presumably it will be patent free by 2020... On May 16, 2012 3:57 PM, "Glenn Maynard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Aldrik Dunbar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Of course if someone comes up with a progressively loaded image format > > this could be handled much more elegantly. > > > > Both PNG and JPEG have had this forever. (PNG's approach is crude, but > JPEG's is reasonable.) However, there's no way to control it client-side; > without somehow knowing how many bytes to load for a certain amount of > detail, all you can do is load the whole thing (or make multiple requests, > which is obviously worse). I've thought about this in the past, but it's > a hard thing to make practical use of. > > -- > Glenn Maynard >
