Common Web image graphics formats.

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JPEG - the most common lossy compression.
1. What is JPEG?
2. Why use JPEG?
3. When should I use JPEG, and when should I stick with GIF?
4. How well does JPEG compress images?
5. What are good "quality" settings for JPEG?
6. What is color quantization?
7. What are some rules of thumb for converting GIF images to JPEG?
8. What is progressive JPEG?
Which format is better for WWW image purposes, JPEG or GIF? GIF89a - new animated graphics format.

1. GIF87a - specification
2. GIF89a - specification
3. GIF89a - cool examples
BTPC - new powerful way of encoding images.

1. Introduction
2. Design criteria for general-purpose still-image coding
3. Image pyramids and trees
4. Binary pyramid structure
5. Binary tree structure
6. BTPC 1 Predictor design
7. Shape-based predictor design
8. Quantizer design
9. Coder design
10. Implementation issues
11. Experimental results and discussion
12. Current and future work
13. References