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In article <40344a95$1@news.povray.org>, Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom>
wrote:
> True, it depends on how many colors you're trying to represent. Given
> this is a ray-tracing newsgroup and GIF only supports 256 colors, I
> think it's safe to say it's lossy. ;-)
Not lossy, just very coarsely quantized. If you call that lossy, than
every possible representation of the image is lossy. The term "lossy"
refers to the compression algorithm used, and the method used by GIF
lets you retrieve exactly the same values you put in: it's lossless.
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