On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:09:50 -0400
Charlie Murphy <cmsmur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I take it back; you're absolutely right.  An image by Buch from
> opengameart.org compresses well as an imagefile.
> 
> In this case:
> * the gzip imagefile is a little bigger than the PNG.
> * the bzip2 imagefile is a little smaller than the PNG.
> 
> Attached are the files.

I love this approach! Instead of trying to compress the image in the
format itself (like PNG), we just leave it to the compressor to
determine certain similarities and patterns.
I suppose LZMA will give even better results.

Cheers

FRIGN

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FRIGN <d...@frign.de>

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