From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3956 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2009 12:48:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 3936 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Dec 2009 12:48:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gx0-f217.google.com (HELO mail-gx0-f217.google.com) (209.85.217.217) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:48:01 +0000 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so2893411gxk.18 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:47:59 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.37.24 with SMTP id k24mr7449201ybk.193.1260017279312; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:47:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4B1A229C.7090404@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Hippo icon for cygwin... From: mike marchywka To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q4/txt/msg00061.txt.bz2 On 12/5/09, Robert Pendell <@elite-systems.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: >> for your enjoyment. It's based on public domain art; this version >> released under a creative commons license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) which is GPL >> compatible. >> >> If ya'll like it, I might put it into cygicons.dll eventually. >> >> -- >> Chuck >> > > I like it. Oh and by the way. The file never got bzip compressed. > It is just a standard tar archive. For decompression if you use > cygwin tar then leave out the -j parameter so it doesn't bother > trying. For native archive manager drop the .bz2 extension. ;) > I thought The Hippo is purely a text file- composed of ASCII chars arranged to make the appearance of a hippo from text someone typed in. there is probably a more compact representation since it is only composed of a few different characters so 8 bits is a waste. if you imagine a family of hippos, you can make a hippo codec for compressing and decompressing hippos, fingers,and pictures of homer simpson. the trick is to find a statemachine to generate the picture with a compact transition rule representation ( make the image small). > --