That makes sense Moose, thanks. But presumably changes in brightness
across an image will add to the complexity of the task of digital
description and therefore the size of the compressed file.
Chris
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On 19 Jul 2005, at 00:38, Moose wrote:
> Conceptually pretty simple, although I wouldn't understand the inner
> details of the code. Take an image where all pixels are just one
> color.
> You can describe it completely in a handful of bytes. Take one where
> every pixel is very different from all of its neighbors. Even with
> acceptance of lossy compression, where subtle variations in color
> can be
> ignored, it is virtually uncompressable without major loss to the
> image
> appearance.
>
> Moose
>
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