>I hate Netscape
>800K->1.35M?  That's ridiculous.

I don't know if you blame Netscape for the extra file size, but it's not
Netscapes fault.. As rediculous as it is, this is just the way emails work..

Looking forward to see your images.  :o)

Regards,
Hugo

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Hugo wrote:
> 
> >I hate Netscape
> >800K->1.35M?  That's ridiculous.
> 
> I don't know if you blame Netscape for the extra file size, but it's not
> Netscapes fault.. As rediculous as it is, this is just the way emails work..

When I MIME-encode the images on a unix flavor (from shell and from an
email program, on both Linux and OpenBSD), I get the approximate 4/3
filesize that I expect.  When I let Netscape do it, it is ungodly huge. 
The same thing happens when I try to send them via email using
Netscape.  I will glady accept evidence that it's not Netscape's fault.

> Looking forward to see your images.  :o)

A friend has lent me some webspace to put them up.  They are currently
at http://www.dragon.org/fnargle/delurk.png and
http://www.dragon.org/fnargle/soliddemo.png

Don't expect too much.  Heh.

Deaken

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Deaken wrote:
> 
> Hugo wrote:
> >
> > >I hate Netscape
> > >800K->1.35M?  That's ridiculous.
> >
> > I don't know if you blame Netscape for the extra file size, but it's not
> > Netscapes fault.. As rediculous as it is, this is just the way emails work..
> 
> When I MIME-encode the images on a unix flavor (from shell and from an
> email program, on both Linux and OpenBSD), I get the approximate 4/3
> filesize that I expect.  When I let Netscape do it, it is ungodly huge.
> The same thing happens when I try to send them via email using
> Netscape.  I will glady accept evidence that it's not Netscape's fault.

Disable HTML message composition and check that your not uuencoding
instead of base64!

Otherwise, the image might get encoded twice: once for text/plain, and
another for text/html in the Mime multipart/alternative.
The Mime standard is crippled with the problem of referencing various
entities outside of each alternatives, so when Html is also generated
(because text/plain is usually mandatory), there is no simple solution
rather than putting the attachment in each alternative.


-- 
Non Sine Numine
http://grimbert.cjb.net/

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"J. Grimbert" wrote:
> 
> Deaken wrote:
> >
> > When I MIME-encode the images on a unix flavor (from shell and from an
> > email program, on both Linux and OpenBSD), I get the approximate 4/3
> > filesize that I expect.  When I let Netscape do it, it is ungodly huge.
> > The same thing happens when I try to send them via email using
> > Netscape.  I will glady accept evidence that it's not Netscape's fault.
> 
> Disable HTML message composition 

First thing I did, long before I first posted here.  I loathe HTML
posts/email.

> and check that your not uuencoding
> instead of base64!

Indeed I am not.  It's set to MIME.

I'm going to use this as the excuse to get off my ass and get slrn set
up to handle this server.

Deaken

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Deaken wrote:
> 
> A friend has lent me some webspace to put them up.  They are currently
> at http://www.dragon.org/fnargle/delurk.png and
> http://www.dragon.org/fnargle/soliddemo.png
> 
> Don't expect too much.  Heh.
> 

Not bad, but you should learn some important rules:

- spheres in checkered or similar environments should be reflective.
- there is an important shape missing in the platonic solids.

;-)

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> Deaken wrote:
> >
> > A friend has lent me some webspace to put them up.  They are currently
> > at http://www.dragon.org/fnargle/delurk.png and
> > http://www.dragon.org/fnargle/soliddemo.png
> >
> > Don't expect too much.  Heh.
> 
> Not bad, but you should learn some important rules:
> 
> - spheres in checkered or similar environments should be reflective.

Damn.  I knew I had the textures wrong somehow.  :)

> - there is an important shape missing in the platonic solids.

Sorry, I don't get the joke.  My humor glands are insufficiently
caffeinated just yet.

In an attempt to play along, I'll go ahead and bite.  The d10?

> --
> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
> IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other
> things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

Thanks for the radiosity tutorial, BTW.

Deaken

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jpeg versions.

Jim


"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:3C42878A.1E0BE9BD@pacbell.net...
>
>
> Deaken wrote:
>
> > I was afraid of that.  In real life, they're not that big (see below).
> > I suspected something was wrong when it took forever to upload them.
> > Damn, I hate Netscape.
> >
> > $ ls -1s --block-size=1 *.png
> > 798720 delurk.png
> > 405504 soliddemo.png
> > $
>
> > Anyone have any idea why that happened?
>
> I was guessing at the 2 meg limit. After I downloaded 1.35 megs I gave up
> and the second image was only 1/3 through. Remember to add about 30% for
> message encoding.
>
> > I'll throw them up on the web somewhere, I guess, and post a pointer.
>
> Or you can do as most people do and use image compression on the images
> you post here. With .png you should be able to reduce your file sizes
> by as much as 70% and still not lose image quality.
>
> > I'm really sorry, folks.  All I can say in my defense is that that was
> > not intentional, and completely unexpected.
>
> No real harm done. We try not to cancel too many posts around here but
> it happens occasionally.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler - News Admin.

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Attachments:
Download 'soliddemo.jpg' (27 KB) Download 'delurk.jpg' (129 KB)

Preview of image 'soliddemo.jpg'

Preview of image 'delurk.jpg'

Deaken wrote:
> 
> 
> > - there is an important shape missing in the platonic solids.
> 
> Sorry, I don't get the joke.  My humor glands are insufficiently
> caffeinated just yet.
> 
> In an attempt to play along, I'll go ahead and bite.  The d10?
> 

The 'teapotahedron'.

> > --
> > Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
> > IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other
> > things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/
> 
> Thanks for the radiosity tutorial, BTW.
> 

You are welcome.

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> Deaken wrote:
> >
> > In an attempt to play along, I'll go ahead and bite.  The d10?
> 
> The 'teapotahedron'.

<sigh>  I should have gotten that.

Deaken

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Jim Kress wrote:
> 
> jpeg versions.

Thank you very much, Jim.

Deaken

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