March 3rd, 2004, 09:57 AM
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Re: New world map
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Originally posted by Torvak:
Ok try this.
Interesting the tga is now 39MB but zip still gets it down to 2.6MB.
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That's really just to be expected, as the map consists of large areas of uniform colour, which compress easily both with zip's compression algorithm and with targa's internal compression.
Incidentally, does anyone know of a more efficent general-purpose compression tool than bzip2?
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