[racket-dev] Yikes! Images in science collection could be much smaller

I'm in the process of updating all of my collections to Racket. I have most
of the smaller ones done - animated-canvas, describe (with documentation
this time), packed-binary, and uuid - with only table-panel left to go.
Right now I'm finishing up the documentation for my new sesame library - an
interface to the Sesame RDF triples store - that I'll release this weekend.
[I need it for my 'real' job.] Then I'll move on to the 'big three' -
science, simulation, and inference. They'll take me a while because of their
size and complexity.But, I'll redo the graphics to PNG format at that time.

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:45 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org>wrote:

> Your science collection stores images as bitmaps.  Storing them as png's
> instead reduces their size by about 99%. This is lossless, so there's no
> reduction in quality.
>
> If I'm doing the math correctly, this could reduce the size of the
> installed science collection from about 78 megabytes to about 7 megabytes
> (it looks like there are three copies of everything).
>
> John
>
>
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