CompuServe Thread

Ed, I'm not able to agree that cel files are smaller. Look at the file sizes of these 2 320×200 animations. JIM FLI 627,304 JIM FLC 636,922 JIM CEL 740,482 DINER FLC 133,684 DINER CEL 130,198 DINER FLI 98,693 The only consistency, which I expected, is that FLI files are smaller than their 320×200 FLC counterparts. FLIC files need more information about their resolutions. I would have expected CEL files to have a larger size than FLICs though. CEL files need offset information too. Here's something from Jim Kent, creator of the formats: CEL files come in two formats – one used in Animator and one used in Animator Pro. The Animator CEL files are single frame only. The Animator Pro CEL files are multi-frame and in fact are the same thing as .FLC files with one additional chunk in the prefix that gives the x/y offset of the Cel. I think the browser can ignore this. Cel Files (.CEL and .PIC) A cel file is a 32 byte header followed by the uncompressed color map (768 bytes) followed by the uncompressed pixel image. Here is the header – Byte Offset Contents 0 Magic Number – 9119 Hexadecimal 2 Width of cel 4 Height of cel 6 Horizontal screen position of upper left corner 8 Vertical screen position 10 How many bits in a pixel – 8 in other words 11 compression type – always 0 for uncompressed 12 size in bytes of cel image – a 4 byte long word 16 16 bytes of zero reserved for future use.