[comp.graphics] Gif files

rk@cs.strath.ac.uk (Richard Kingslake) (10/26/88)

I have a student working with me on GIF files and related things.  I should
therefore very much appreciate it if I could have a little help in chasing
up some references.

	1.	Is Bob Montgomery anywhere on the net?
	2.	Is Steve Blackstock ditto?
	3.	I have heard of GIFENCOD.GIF and GIFDECOD.GIF.  Has anyone got a
		copy I could have (assuming it's PD, of course!).
	4.	Has anyone any GIF files that we could study?  I already have NICE,
		CHERYL and BLASTOFF.  They are all 640x350x16.  It would be nice to
		have some other resolutions too.
	5.	The (long) article from compuserve detailing the GIF standard
		refers to IEEE "Computer" for June 1984 (Vol. 17 No. 6).  We are finding
		it hard to track this down.  Does anyone (in Britain) have a copy they
		are prepared to Xerox?  There is just the one article we need on the LZW
		compression technique (by Terry A Welch).

The net is always so helpful, that I hope it can come up trumps again.


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	Richard Kingslake

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craparotta@craparotta.enet.dec.com (Joe Craparotta) (09/19/90)

Is there a place where one could FTP some GIF files... Having just got my 
system (iicx) I'd like to start looking at some... Any help would be greatly
appreciated..

Joe Craparotta	Craparotta@level.dec.com
		--or-- ...!decwrl!level.dec.com!craparotta
		--or-- craparotta%level.dec@decwrl.dec.com

schwartz@ils.nwu.edu (Diane Schwartz) (12/05/90)

We are converting files from a Mac onto a Sun Sparc (in Gif format).
The colors are coming out close but much darker than the original.
Does anyone know how a Gif file stores the color information?  Is
it in RGB format (in other words does it store the exact RGB values)?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-diane

p.s. Please respond by email.

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