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 -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>