Re: Graphics Conversion (was Re: NetScape 5)

[Ronald Clark <ron@pacifier.com>]

Could I get a Copy of LordHighGiffer?
Ron


Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> In article Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com> writes...

>>I just uploaded "gifdisk.shk" to ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/upload
>>
>>I'm not sure how long it takes before that file will be moved to the Dec98
>>directory so that you can download it, but hopefully, it'll be soon.

>     I just downloaded it. You can actually FTP invisible files from
> the '/upload' directory if you know the exact name of any file that
> is sitting in there. :)

>>There are 77 GIFs in that file. Some of the GIFs started out as SHRs, and
>>others were actually converted from Single Hi Res graphics to GIF format. I
 >>did all the conversions myself, years ago, using SHRConvert (the
predecessor
>>to SuperConvert) and some of the graphics are real nice looking and some are
>>real dogs (with apologies to Bernie) ;-)
>>
>>Please...everyone....download those GIF graphics and use _your_ favorite
>>graphics conversion program to convert them to standard 16 color 320 x 200
>>Super Hi Res graphics. And, time how long it takes. Then post your times.

>     Well, I decided to give it a try and came up with some rather
> surprising results. Perhaps it has to do with the fact almost all the
> images are already in 320x200 resolution with 16 or less colors, or
> because I set an option incorrectly, but Convert 3200 came dead last
> in this race. I should probably try it again with larger GIF images
> that have a color depth of 256 colors, the results might be very
> different.

> Using my IIgs running at 15 MHz, with all programs reading and
> writing to my SCSI hardrive connected through a 1 MB RamFAST SCSI,
> I came up with the following results:

> LordHighGiffer.............0 min, 50 sec
> SHRView 3.6................2 min, 30 sec
> Convert 3200..............30 min, 50 sec

>     Time calculated is a bit rough since I didn't have a stopwatch
> handy and just watched a digital clock (I started each test when
> the seconds hit 0 and rounded off to the nearest second at the end).
> So I'd say it's accurate with +/-10 seconds.

>     I'm still curious why Convert 3200 took so long. I had the 77
> GIF images loaded from '/HD/GIF' and saved to '/HD/GIF/TEST'. The
> color options were set to use 16 colors (1 palette), the image
> size was left at 320x200 (the default) and I told it to convert
> all images in selected folder (I didn't choose "I believe in god"
> as an option). Did I forgot to set something, or perhaps picked
> an option that unnecessarily slowed things down? I'm interested
> in hearing what results other people got...

> Mitchell Spector
> spec@vax2.concordia.ca