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Compression defined

  • compression method tied to image storage format
  • different methods alter images in different ways
  • file extensions identify image storage format
  • LZ or LZW - Lempel-Ziv or Lempel-Ziv-Welch
    • used by GIF and TIF
    • LZW proprietary to Unisys
    • lossy
  • RLE - Run-length encoding
    • lossless (very big files)
  • TGA (Targa)
    • proprietary to TrueVision
    • lossless (gigantic files)

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