On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:18:48 +0200
bw <[email protected]> wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| I had the following idea.
| 
| I want to make one file of around 250 small png flags (all flags are square
| btw) for sprite purposes.
| 
| Now as discussed earlier somewhere, placing vertically the same colour will
| reduce the png better than horizontally so I need to find a good way to
| group them
| 
| First I guess removing duplicate flags will help ;-) but then the hard part:
| grouping as much as possible: but how?
| 
compare..
  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compare/

| Could there be an automated way to check vertically resemblance between the
| flags? and group them somehow?
| 
That is difficult and depend on detailed knowledge of how the PNG
algorithms work (Their are a number of different styles)

A bigger decision is the PNG format.  If the sprites have a limited set
of colors a PNG 8 format may work better than normal PNG.


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <[email protected]>
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