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New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 14: Apple Video Codec
https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-14-apple-video-codec.html
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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn @golemwire
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #algorithms #lossy #compression #codec #codecs #AppleVideo #Apple #video #quicktime
New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 12: A-law & µ-law Audio Companding
https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-12-a-law-m-law-audio-companding.html
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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn @golemwire
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #algorithms #compression #audio #companding #expansion #aLaw #mulaw #ulaw #µlaw
New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 11: Lossy Compression Algorithms
https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-11-lossy-compression-algorithms.html
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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn @golemwire
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #algorithms #compression #compSci #algorithmic #Graphics #MPEG #JPEG #DCT #Video
New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 10: GIF
https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-10-gif.html
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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn @golemwire
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #algorithms #compression #compSci #algorithmic #Graphics #CompuServe #GIF #GraphicsInterchangeFormat
New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 9: Run-Length Encoding / PackBits
https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-9-run-length-encoding-packbits.html
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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #algorithms #compression #compSci #algorithmic #RLE #RunLengthEncoding #PackBits #MacPaint #BillAtkinson
I love the efficiency with which ImageMagick has been created. The look of the user interface is deliberately simple; the software suite needs to be as blazingly fast as possible from the shell
#imagemagick #Image #Magic ✨ #OpenSource #programming #compression #Graphics
May I assume that you used this wonderful software suite in your endeavor?
https://imagemagick.org/#gsc.tab=0
#Image #Magic ✨ #OpenSource #programming #compression #Graphics
Not actually back yet, just wanted to toot this for fun... ;)
Raw (TGA/Targa format) 1200ppi US Letter scan: 381MiB
PNG version: 27MiB
After contrast enhancement: 2.3MiB
After reducing to 10 colors: 1.2MiB
After re-doing reduction, first converting to grayscale: 1001KiB
Reducing to 4 shades of gray (from original 256-shade image): 727KiB
Reducing to monochrome (no perceptible loss in quality): 556KiB
Conversion to PDF + OCR with aggressive JBIG2 compression: 264KiB
Overall compression factor from original scan: 1480.6:1
Overall compression factor from uncompressed monochrome version of scan: 61.7:1
Overall lossless compression factor (uncompressed monochrome to PNG monochrome): 29.2:1
Lossless compression factor for full-color image: 14:1
Data compression is a heck of a thing. ;)
Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469
Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.
#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology