What's In A GIF

Re:What's In A GIF by rojabuck on Thursday November 24, 2011 @04:17AM (#3273749)

A clear & approachable piece of documentation. What a fantastic resource a library of such documents, for numerous major data formats, would be.

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Re:What's In A GIF by sandal on Thursday November 24, 2011 @04:13PM (#3275428)

I've thought about writing a book on that.I've had to implement bits and pieces of PDF,PNG,JPG,and TTF and learning this stuff has been fascinating.

I did write one article and also did a short video on this stuff, but could think about expanding that if there is sufficient interest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLnOD1qC-Vo http://practicingruby.com/articles/shared/oelhlibhtlkx

My work so far has been in Ruby but I'd probably want to at least look into how to do this sort of stuff in C or some other low level language, because things like alpha channel splitting in PNG is painfully slow :-/

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Re:What's In A GIF by jayfuerstenberg on Thursday November 24, 2011 @04:26AM (#3273774)

I remember reading tomes to understand how to parse BMPs and PICs back in the DOS days for display in Mode 13h.

If I had an articulate page like this my life would've been a lot easier.

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Re:What's In A GIF by pan69 on Thursday November 24, 2011 @06:09AM (#3273976)

1600 pages of goodness.

http://www.amazon.com/Programmers-Guide-EGA-Super-Cards/dp/0...

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