KR> fractal compression is size independent, but jpeg is only intended

 KR> to be reproduced at the original size.



 BG> Interestingly, Brenton's JPG of Belinda was originally 100 x 208

 BG> resolution (rather small on an 800 x 600 display), so I upsized it by a

 BG> factor of four, then printed it on my bubblejet, and the result (which is

 BG> still stuck on the side of the fridge) was quite acceptable, albeit a tad

 BG> blocky close-up.



depends on the the original artwork and the amount of compression, the

less the compression the more that you can blow it up. hopefully, with

this packet, i'll upload jpgtest.zip to specialr on tml. it has a gif

and several jpgs of the same photo. for my money, the jpegs look as good

or better than the gif, and, while the gif is 97336 bytes, the jpegs

range from 78861 down to 17667 bytes. i don't know what type of graphics

card you have, but the jpegs take full advantage of hi-color or

tru-color where the gifs look just the same in 16.7 mill as 256 colours.



 BG> I won't be trying it at all, as I don't have a flatbed scanner.  :)



with that, the stylus colour printer, and photoshop i can now do what i

used to spend hours in the darkroom trying to do. well nearly, a better

printer would be nice but i ain't got the $10k for one, and having undo

is a great advantage over starting all over again with another piece of

film.



 BG> Is that why 24-bit colour is permitted with JPGs then?



 KR> because for the reproduction of continuous tone photographs, the

 KR> maximal number of colours is required.



 BG> OK, understood.  Complex stuff, this graphics manipulation...



is is fun, and a major challenge to do right. probably one of the

reasons that my e-mail activities will diminish in the near future.



 BG> The official boundaries may well have changed since I left Sydney in 1970,

 BG> but way back then, Berowra was a full-on day trip (i.e. take a cut lunch).



still is, if you travel by rail, just ask wendy about it (:



 BG> True, just like those areas between Brisbane and the GC, it won't be long

 BG> before there is no longer any definitive boundary, just a massive swag of

 BG> suburbs all the way.  It actually appears to have cost the ALP the

 BG> election, unfortunately.  4 seats down the tubes because of the

 BG> (necessary) tollway.  Fucking insanity, the govt should have waited a

 BG> while before announcing their intentions, I reckon.  The proposed new road

 BG> passes through 5 (once safe) Labor seats, and they have retained just one

 BG> of them.  Talk about political suicide!



we have an advantage, most of the land to the north of us is national

park, and near impossible to build on anyway. i see that my old district

of redlands went lib, although i am not surprised, the population there

must be nearly 70% southern migrants esp victorians with all the new

estates there now. oh, i'm sorry that cant be true, all those new houses

are for queenslanders aren't they? (:



                        Keith





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