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3 Oct 2024 23:24:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Test image of a box at 3200 x 2400 20 KBBU  
From: Alan Kong
Date: 2 Jan 2000 10:15:32
Message: <8gqu6ssv64jmh72124pcsi0i8po57mpman@4ax.com>
Good morning, Bob. Png will beat out an 8-bit, 256-color GIF just
about every time because it uses a superior compression algorithm. In
the case of Mark's "Box", there are really just 17 colors and the JPEG
cannot make efficient use of its lossy compression scheme.

On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 08:26:38 -0600, in message
<386f600e@news.povray.org>, "omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:

>I resaved this "box" in both Gif and Jpg format and they were 36KB and 45KB
>respectively.  I was a bit surprised to see that this 256 color Png was so
>space thrifty.


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