> Farbfeld is an intermediate format that is easy to parse and emit. > Sent can use pipe + fork + exec. This is similar to how tar handles > compressed archives.
I feel like this introduces extra dependencies; but I suppose you're right in that it handles compression. In the slcon2 presentation it seemed like bzip2 performed well - which is cool. I would like to add another point: Imagine publishing the slides with farbfeld images to the public. I don't see farbfeld as a viable format to publish data today. I'm not hating on the farbfeld format, it just doesn't seem like it will get the widespread adoption to be a viable format to use when publishing data. I would compare farbfeld with *.xdoc format; my machines currently have no way of opening them. My current process of opening *.xdoc documents involves borrowing a pc with MS word on it and convert it to PDF. Why insist on obfuscating the data? (as in lack of support of using the farbfeld format)
