Re: [Paddlewise] FW: Copying legally . . .

From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk_at_gsp.org>
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 15:00:10 -0400
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 12:41:46PM -0500, Chuck Holst wrote:
> Do you have any idea how big a file a scanned two-foot by three-foot
> chart would require at 300 dpi? A quick calculation shows that to be
> 77,760,000 pixels!

So it's 77M at 8 bits/pixel: no problem.

Do have any idea how compressed that file would get if you rendered
it as a JPG (or via any other decent compression scheme)?  There is
an enormous amount of spatial redundancy in most images.

(I've worked at a couple of different jobs in the medical imaging field,
one of which involved routinely generating 300 MByte data files in a
few seconds.  They wound up around 8-14 Mbytes after compression.)

---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
rsk_at_gsp.org
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