X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,cefe6b8bf63ab7a2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-06-09 19:33:49 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!egnor From: egnor@shred.ugcs.caltech.edu (Dan Egnor) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Subject: Re: Arnie Movie Date: 9 Jun 1994 08:37:35 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2t6kcf$3je@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: <2susrj$dnk@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <1994Jun7.183312.22179@aber.ac.uk> <2t2urr$12i@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <2t6bp6$i8k@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: shred.ugcs.caltech.edu In article <2t6bp6$i8k@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, Scott E Gilbert wrote: >In article <2t2urr$12i@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, Dan Egnor > wrote: >]Each frame is ~ 2K in size. At 20fps, that's 2*20*3600*2 = 288000K, or >]~ 300 megabytes for a 2-hour movie. So I exaggerated a bit. >Then again, these types of files compress really well. I'll bet you could >get 10 to 1 compression and turn that into 30 megabytes. With "gzip -9" the t2.txt file chops from 212850 bytes to 47533. That's a reduction of ~ 4.5, so the hypothetical movie would take between 50 and 100 megabytes .... Dan