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Damon Lynch

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BPG Image format - impressive
« on: December 13, 2014, 12:07:20 pm »

"Native support of 8 to 14 bits per channel for a higher dynamic range" sound nice? Better compression than jpeg too.

http://bellard.org/bpg/

The developer knows what he is doing, with two big-name successful projects in prior years. There is a news write up here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/12/bpg_jpeg_killer/

The sample images are certainly impressive. Let's hope one day it or something much like it becomes widely adopted.

But then again I see a lot of bandwidth killing animated GIFs these days, so perhaps I'm too optimistic  ::)

Finally, as an aside, it warms my heart to see the old school web-design for the developer's page. It reminds me of the documentation for a bunch of command line programs. Extremely rudimentary with no graphics whatsoever.  ;D
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Re: BPG Image format - impressive
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2014, 01:11:31 pm »

It is good to see these versatile formats emerging.  I have also been experimenting with JPEG XR:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/JPEGXR/

which will store up to 32bpc and transparency.  I will read more about BPG and see if I can make any useful comparisons.

Thanks for the heads up. 

Kirk
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