On 27Mar2010 19:44, Stephen Hansen <apt.shan...@gmail.invalid> wrote: | Yeah, I don't expect much from PNG. The images are very small but I | might be sending a LOT of them over a pipe which is fairly tight, so | 50-60 bytes matters. That's why I selected GIF.
How well does a stream of XPM files compress? Probably not enough, I would guess. Just wondering. Do you need to move a "standard" image format around? If everything's 16x16 8 bit colour (and if, with luck, they share a colour map) maybe you can ship raw bytes expressing what you want. How colourful are these GIFs? -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ What I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. - Charles Dickens John Huffam 1812-1870 Hard Times [1854] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
