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Foil 2 Image Format Basics

From Image Format Basics CPS606fall96 -- Fall Semester 96. by Nancy J. McCracken * See also color IMAGE
This talk will introduce the topics of graphics files and the various formats.
The main formats discussed are bitmap (PBM, PPM, PGM), GIF, JPEG, and a little on TIFF.
The compression techniques discussed are Run-Length Encoding, Huffman Coding, and Dictionary Systems.
References:
  • John Levine, ³Programming for Graphics Files in C and C++², John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
  • James Murray and William vanRyper, Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats, Second Edition, O¹Reilly, 1996.

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