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From: "Tom R. Earlywine" <Tre10@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: file size (was: ascii art for email ...)
Date: 1997/09/07
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A beautiful picture...but it is not a valid chart.

#1) Where are the values?  You have both "file formats" and dates on the Y axis, and no values on the X axis...now I will assume the X-axis is either total bits or number of images or "pages", but that still leaves us with the dual values on the y-axis.  Also, if X is bits, your theory does not apply to the argument...for, IMHO, aside from the most important: total 'translatability', the practical reason for doing ascii-art is that the file-size is smaller than a gif or jpeg for the same sized picture.

#2) I'd like to see the data that you used to form this chart.  Where can I find it?  Was there a survey, or did somebody find a way collect this type of data from all the servers on the internet?

But, like I said, it is a pretty picture.

PeteCasso wrote:
> 
> Usage of art file formats on the Internet
> ^
> |
> |                       1990's      2000's
> |
> |                       o    o
> |                   o           o      bell curve
> |                 o               o      slides with time
> |               o                   o      ---------------->
> |             o                       o
> |           o                            o
> |         o                                 o
> |       o                                      o
> |    o                              png?          o
> | o                                 quicktime?        o
> |         ascii         gif         shockwave?
> |-----------------------------------------------------------
>             art file formats on the Internet
> 
> What the chart is saying, is that gif is king of the hill in the 1990's,
> there will be other kings of the hill in the next decade, etc.
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