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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The site is in place: http://home.gci.net/~mrart/Monuments.html
Any comments, ideas, bad jokes, ect are welcome.
The list as it stands is at: http://home.gci.net/~mrart/Ages.html

Mr. Art

"mr.art" wrote:
> 
> Well, I still have a little space on a very inactive web site.
> I could put this there, and make a link for it from the List
> of Ages page. Would that be OK? If it is, could you give a
> thumbnail of this monument and some sort of credits to be
> displayed with it?
>

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>   Bob, you've made a very good point. I don't see a purpose to uploading
> these large images unless they are *final* renders of a given image.
> They consume way too much server space for something that may need to be
> re-rendered at least once every two weeks to remain current with
> additions to the Age List.

I do consider this a "final" render, and for new additions it is always possible
to cancel old posts.

>   I would consider posting a .url where we could take a look for
> ourselves. An alternative would be that any person who renders updates
> to their own work would 'cancel' the previous image to help conserve
> server space for something original. It's all a bit redundant. This
> still doesn't address the concerns of people who download everything
> from this news server and then disseminate it while offline. They are in
> for some unplanned, lengthy online sessions :(

Point taken. I originally thought it best not to use a URL for privacy reasons,
but I suppose mr. art has his age list so that's probably best.

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> The list as it stands is at: http://home.gci.net/~mrart/Ages.html

What happened to TonyB?

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> The list as it stands is at: http://home.gci.net/~mrart/Ages.html

What happened to Sander?

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David Fontaine wrote:
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> > The list as it stands is at: http://home.gci.net/~mrart/Ages.html
> 
> What happened to Sander?

Sander is number 2 on the list and TonyB is number 5 on the list. Time
to get your glasses checked ?

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> Sander is number 2 on the list and TonyB is number 5 on the list. Time
> to get your glasses checked ?

My mistake, I was looking for TonyB instead of Anthony and I was checking
from the bottom up.

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> Hey, it's tough to add people, I pity you David because all those arrays
> have to be counted through and each inserted with the new info.  Wish I knew
> a better way.  At least one thing I did was to make the array number a
> variable so it could be easily changed all at once by declaring it at the
> beginning of the namelisthf.pov.

Nope. Copy and paste the list into POV, then use column select to add commas and
quotation marks where necessary and all you really have to do is add the array
declarations. Except its kind of a pain to keep pressing End * " to get those *
at the end of all variable-length strings. I wish I still had that programmable
keyboard...

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What do you mean, "What happened to Sander, and TonyB"?
They are near the top of the list. It is sorted by 
first name with Alexander and Anthony near the top.
If you would like to see the list sorted by month/day
or by place, there is a link to text files at the bottom.
I suppose that I should include one sorted by age also.

Mr. Art

David Fontaine wrote:
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> > The list as it stands is at: http://home.gci.net/~mrart/Ages.html
> 
> What happened to Sander?
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As for getting the asterisks on the ends of all the names and locations, it was so
easy! Use column select to surround every entry with quotation marks, then use
Replace All and change "space-quotation" to "asterisk-quotation" and again to change
all "space-asterisk" to "asterisk". That adds the asterisks and gets rid of all
spaces before them.

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