Re: Image Stuff

[Bjorn Ardo <bjorn@hobbe.UB2.lu.se>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Andrew J Berkley wrote:

> The GIF filter looks like it would be easy to convert to push/incremental
> based.  I don't know about the JPG filter.
> 
> Gzilla has an incremental GIF and a JPG filter -- maybe the image folks
> should look at those (i did, they are pretty straight-forward).

I've downloaded it but didn't realy look at is while writing "our"
GIF-code. The way it is written now is so it would be easy to add 89a
extentions (with looping and animation). The freeing of the memory isn't
completely solved, the colormaps remain (has to find something intelegent
here). Maby we should rewrite some parts of it completely. The LZW
decompression for example eats a lot of memory. 
I will look at the Gzilla stuff as soon as I got the time.

> 
> I have an hour now... maybe I'll make a crack at making the GIF filter
> work with our data-push stuff.

That would be great.

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