[vtk-developers] CVS (vtkbaseline) is huge. TIFF compression ?

Ken Martin ken.martin at kitware.com
Thu Aug 3 17:17:16 EDT 2000


A compressed TIFF reader that is "patent free" would be my first choice. a 
PNG reader would also work out nicely. I don't know of anyone working on 
either of those though.

- Ken

At 09:41 PM 8/3/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I tried today to write the very latest VTK CVS snapshot to a CDROM, but :
>
>         - VTK source : 20.7 Mo
>         - vtkbaseline : 420 Mo
>         - vtkdata : 228 Mo
>
>=> 668.7 Mo. More than one CDROM could handle
>
>And if you want to include the very latest documentation (with the new 
>collaboration graphs I've added today) : 
>ftp://sic.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr/pub/barre/vtk/doc/html/index.html
>
>         - DOC doxygen : 44.9
>
>=> 713.6 Mo
>
>I guess the next distribution will use two CDROM :))
>
>Or maybe has someone already considering adding compression to TIFF ?
>
>Basically, Packbits compression would strip down vtkbaseline from 420 Mo 
>to 232 Mo. The whole CDROM would be 523.6 Mo, leaving spaces for the rest 
>of the distribution (examples, documentation, images from the book, etc).
>
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