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GIF uses LZW compression, not RLE, but your point stands that it more efficiently compresses long runs of the same color.
by news_to_me 5y ago
GIF uses LZW compression, not RLE, but your point stands that it more efficiently compresses long runs of the same color.
- anentropic 5y agoAh you're right... I saw another comment mention RLE which jogged my memory, as you say it was the same point though, to have large areas of flat colour It was BMP that used RLE wasn't it?