Most pictures are more complicated than this, I mean come on, a simple
RLE-compression could go on with one color for half the pic...

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Ian Burgmyer wrote in message <386edd8a@news.povray.org>...
>>I think it's okay.  It's our choice to download it.  The file size is

Don't some people download and read offline?
What's wrong with a website. It deserves a page of it's own.

I actually plan to put up a website with stuff like this:
Pov related, not my personal images. But not at
the moment as I have two other(non-optional)
sites I have to do.

Personally I have a space concern. (!@#$% 500meg half-life!)

Peter

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On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 15:26:31 -0600, in message
<386e70f3@news.povray.org>, "omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:

>These pictures are making for one heck of a large file size even compressed.
>Should any future posts be uploaded to webspace and not here then? I too
>have a render of this going now and thought I would only do it that way if
>it seemed reasonable to upload at all.  What do you all think?  Bringing
>this up because I can see it being redone many more times if new additions
>are made.

  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 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 :(

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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.

Bob

"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
news:386EFFCF.C2AC9E5D@faricy.net...
> Most pictures are more complicated than this, I mean come on, a simple
> RLE-compression could go on with one color for half the pic...
>

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"Ian Burgmyer" <the### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:386edd16@news.povray.org...
> Also, I live in Struthers, Ohio, just for the record.
>

Yet another change already, my name disk here can't get cold as wallpaper if
this keeps up  ;-)
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.

Bob

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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?

Alan Kong wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 15:26:31 -0600, in message
> <386e70f3@news.povray.org>, "omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> 
> >These pictures are making for one heck of a large file size even compressed.
> >Should any future posts be uploaded to webspace and not here then? I too
> >have a render of this going now and thought I would only do it that way if
> >it seemed reasonable to upload at all.  What do you all think?  Bringing
> >this up because I can see it being redone many more times if new additions
> >are made.
> 
>   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 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 :(
> 
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> http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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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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