Timeline for Why are these (lossless) compression methods of many similar png images ineffective?
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| Jul 17, 2016 at 10:25 | comment | added | underscore_d | for posterity: archive formats that exploit redundancies among files by concatenating the files into a single blob and compressing that are termed solid. not sure if there are other terms for intermediate levels of 'solidity', etc. | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 18:14 | history | edited | D.W.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2016 at 2:12 | comment | added | D.W.♦ | Yup! That's half of the story; see my answer for the other half, or Nayuki's great answer. | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 0:59 | comment | added | Nayuki | A more accurate answer: gzip and zip use the same underlying DEFLATE codec, which is based on LZ77+Huffman theory. | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 20:12 | vote | accept | a_guest | ||
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| Jul 14, 2016 at 11:24 | history | answered | Raphael | CC BY-SA 3.0 |