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Revisions of MSchessagon

CHESSAGON by Kerry Langford on 2021-02-07 21:59:36

CHESSAGON by Kerry Langford on 2021-02-07 23:09:45

CHESSAGON by Kerry Langford on 2021-02-07 23:34:46

CHESSAGON by Kerry Langford on 2021-02-08 23:10:40

CHESSAGON by Kerry Langford on 2021-02-08 23:27:58

CHESSAGON by Kerry Langford on 2021-02-09 00:43:07

CHESSAGON by Kerry Langford on 2021-02-09 00:50:01

CHESSAGON by Fergus Duniho on 2021-02-09 17:40:26

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CHESSAGON. CHESSAGON® is like traditional Chess, but with Triangles, with one new additional piece named the Duke.

Fergus Duniho wrote on 2021-02-09 EST

And using a monochrome background is bound to save a far larger factor than 50%.

You misread what I wrote. That 50% refers to image quality. It is a value that is passed to the function for converting a PNG to a JPG. The reduction in filesize was around 90%. As I said, it reduced it to about 10% of the original size.

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H. G. Muller wrote on 2021-02-09 EST

But they would still look ugly, without monochrome background. And using a monochrome background is bound to save a far larger factor than 50%.

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Fergus Duniho wrote on 2021-02-09 EST

There are two ways to reduce the filesize of these images. One is to re-edit them to use monochrome backgrounds. The other is to convert them to JPG images. These are all PNG files, which can be very large when you have many colors and lots of detail. I converted the setup diagram to a JPG at 50% reduction, which reduced the filesize to around 10% of its original size without any noticeable change in appearance. When I clicked Keep, it deleted the original image and kept the reduced image. So, I changed the IMG link in the code to the reduced image. If the author would convert all the other images to JPG images, they should fit in the space provided.

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H. G. Muller wrote on 2021-02-09 EST

Another way to look at this is that the authors should simply provide suitable images. 8MB for a few pieces and move diagrams is pretty ridiculous. We did not put an upload limit for no reason; space and bandwidth are not entirely free, and unlimited wasting of those resources will hurt.

The images I see now in no way qualify as 'high quality'. They are in fact awful. They contain lots of totally unnecessary detail (like an irregular texture for the background of a board) which enormously bloats them, and is detrimental to the purpose they are for (namely to convey how the pieces move). Less detail = better, and the image size is a good indication of the lack of suitability.

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Fergus Duniho wrote on 2021-02-09 EST

shrink the image data size without hurting quality too much

The file manager is able to do that.

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