[Newbies] Reading PNG images into squeak image is slow
Ben Coman
btc at openInWorld.com
Wed Oct 23 15:13:06 UTC 2013
Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Ben Coman wrote:
>
>> Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Mateusz Grotek wrote:
>>>
>>>> It is (even on Cog).
>>>> What is the reason for that?
>>>> Is it a problem with the algorithm used in the image or it's
>>>> unsolvable
>>>> inside the image and a plugin or FFI is needed.
>>>
>>> I doubt it can be significantly faster using smalltalk only. When we
>>> wanted to store images in files using lossless compression, we
>>> decided to use jpeg instead of png, because it has plugin support,
>>> so it's a lot faster to load and save the images.
>> That sounds contradictory since JPEG is not lossless (I know you
>> know, just stating the obvious). For computer generated images with
>> solid blocks of colour JPEG can have artifacts. PNG is lossless. In
>> general, photo=JPEG, graphics=PNG.
>
> You have to set the quality parameter to 100 to get a lossless image.
> The only drawback versus png is that it only supports three channels,
> so there will be no alpha channel in those images. But that was not a
> problem for us.
Thats interesting. I'd never heard of that. I always believed 100 was
still lossless per [1] [2]. What software did you use for the lossless
JPEG encoding?
cheers -ben
[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7982409/is-jpeg-lossless-when-quality-is-set-to-100
[2]
http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/19876/converting-raw-images-to-lossless-jpeg-using-gimp
>
>
> Levente
>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> P.S.
>>>>
>>>> Code:
>>>> (PNGReadWriter formFromFileNamed: something) durationToRun
>>>> "0:00:01:09.591"
>>>> "unacceptale if you want to program an image browser"
>>>>
>>>> Data:
>>>> 1301.png: PNG image data, 2048 x 1536, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
>>>> (a pic of a street taken from a cell phone)
>>>
>>> That image is huge. Cell phones and digital cameras usually create
>>> jpeg images. But if you really need to support png, then ffi or a
>>> plugin is the way to go.
>> I believe this is because a higher level of compression would take
>> longer and use more battery. You can use http://www.xnview.com/
>> to often drop 80% of the file size of of cell phone images without
>> any apparent loss of quality.
>
> If that is a concern, then I'm pretty sure these machines have
> hardware which can compress the images. The do have it for video
> (mpeg2/h264), so adding jpeg is basically no extra cost.
>
> On the other hand, I don't think creating a png file is
> computationally less expensive, than creating a jpeg file.
>
>
> Levente
>
>>
>> -ben
>>>
>>>
>>> Levente
>>>
>>
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