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Old August 16th 08, 09:58 PM posted to rec.crafts.glass
Steve Ackman
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Default Searching For A Pattern: Supperman "S" Logo -SupermanLogo-CleanUp-Pattern.bmp (1/1)

In , on Sat, 16 Aug 2008
13:43:39 -0400, Moonraker, wrote:

So, Steve???

Methinks if you had been as aggressive about "policing" the obvious
self-serving, self promotion of a certain Canadian asshole and his little
group of sock-puppet offspring, this group might actually have a life and
be of some value.


In the old days, you could issue a cancel message.
Those days are long gone, and the only thing you can do
now is complain to ISP/NSP. Most of the idiocy comes
from Google Groups, but unfortunately, a complaint to
their abuse desk results in an auto-reply with
absolutely no followup.
If any single thing can be said to have led to the
deterioration of Usenet, it was Google's policy to
allow any spam anyone cared to post.

As a rule, the worst thing you can do is to answer
trolls and spammers. No, check that. The WORST thing
you can do is to BUY something from them, but clicking
their links and talking about them also lets them
know their posts are being read and "generating
interest."

I'd also point out to the OP that the Superman logo is protected by
international copyrights, and it's a fine line he's walking on infringement
issues. Making a piece containing the logo for your own use is, while
questionable, probably not going to get him in any legal hot water.
Making even one for hire is a violation.


Seems so obvious it barely needs mentioning, but I
guess it does bear repeating... often.

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Old August 17th 08, 06:33 PM posted to rec.crafts.glass
Steve Ackman
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Default Graphics formats {was Searching For A Pattern: Supperman...

I finally found a server that carried the binary.

For those who didn't see the binary and are still
curious, this is the pattern in question:
http://wizard.dyndns.org/graphics/Super-logo.png

If Dave is still reading, I'd like to point out that
if you follow this pattern "verbatim," this piece will
break at the narrow point:
http://wizard.dyndns.org/graphics/Super-logo.a.png

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Given the age of the version of Agent used, that BMP
would have been UUencoded to 758732 bytes of bandwidth
for the graphic + ~500 bytes for the headers.

As the original format *.BMP, it's 550674 bytes.
Converting to *.PNG, it only takes up 18797 bytes.

For future reference when posting to binary groups or
even to web pages, remember that BMP is a microsoft
graphics format that's essentially raw bitmapped
pixels; no compression.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) uses a lossless
compression algorithm so there's absolutely no loss
in detail yet the PNG file can be as little as...
well, the example above reduces the filesize by a
factor of more than 29! That's really significant for
people on dialup and/or metered access.

PNG is the best format for patterns, line drawings,
diagrams, etc. where you need the smallest filesize
while retaining full detail.

Now for a real puzzler, Super-logo.a.png is actually
smaller than Super-logo.png.

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