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Article #7134Re: Run-length encoding for image data?
From: Russ Nelson
Date: Fri, 06 May 1988 19:24
Date: Fri, 06 May 1988 19:24
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In article <9440@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>|Has anyone successfully implemented a run-length-encoding scheme for
>|compressing pixel information sent to the image operator? Several attempts
>Ray,
>Have you tried byte level run-length encoding, i.e.
> 00 00 00 00 00 13 13 13 13 24 encoded as 5 * 00, 4 * 13, 24
I don't know about Ray, but I've tried it, and it is indeed slower. Arrrgh!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Run-length encoding for image data? Message-ID: <897@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 6 May 88 19:24:16 GMT References: <2387@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> <9440@sol.ARPA> Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (Russ Nelson) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 12