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An animated GIF illustrating a technique for displaying more than the typical limit of 256 colors. To render a full-color image as a GIF, the original image must be broken down into smaller regions having no more than 255 or 256 different colors. Each of these regions is then stored as a separate image block with its own local palette and when ...
The only requirement was that this image was invisible, either by being the same color as the page, or by being transparent. Spacer GIFs themselves were small transparent image files. GIF files were used as it was a common format that supported transparency, unlike JPEG. These files were commonly named spacer.gif, transparent.gif or 1x1.gif.
In addition, transparency is often an "extra" for a graphics format, and some graphics programs will ignore the transparency. Animated PNG 8-bit transparency. Raster file formats that support transparency include GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TGA and JPEG 2000, through either a transparent color or an alpha channel.
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Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) is a file format which extends the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification to permit animated images that work similarly to animated GIF files, while supporting 24 or 48-bit images and full alpha transparency not available for GIFs. It also retains backward compatibility with non-animated PNG files.
On small images, GIF can achieve greater compression than PNG (see the section on filesize, below). On most images, except for the above case, a GIF file has a larger size than an indexed PNG image. PNG gives a much wider range of transparency options than GIF, including alpha channel transparency.
The series chronicles the random adventures of two animal frenemies: I.M. Weasel (Michael Dorn) and I.R. Baboon (Charlie Adler).The first one is a famous, heroic, eloquent, highly intelligent and very talented least weasel who always tries to help people out and is thus adored by everybody, constantly shouting his catchphrase "I am Weasel!"
" Story by Alan Stranks, Drawn by Harry Lindfield First appeared in Eagle March 22, 1957 See also The Best of Eagle edited by Marcus Morris 1977 pages 121 to 128 "Marvel of MI5", written by David Cameron and illustrated by Paddy Nevin "P.C. 49", written by Alan Stranks and illustrated by John Worsley