Image Sampler with Embedded Image File Size

Hello,

I noticed that definitions with images Embedded Inside get very big. The image I have added to the definition is 338KB. While I would expect embedding an image would add some size to the definition (at least the size of the image itself), I did not expect it would add so much. I can imagine this is a result of writing out the image into the GH file format? Are there any plans to optimize the file size when embedding images or at least enable relative paths?

Best,

Luis

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on August 30, 2011 at 10:30am

Hi Luis,

How was the trip? Out of interest how big is your image when saved as a bitmap?

Danny

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on August 30, 2011 at 10:33am

Crazy trip...

Saved as a BMP its 5.69MB.

Luis

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 30, 2011 at 1:35pm

I load the image into memory at which point it loses the original image file data and don't want to save it with a lossy compression, so I save all images as 32-bit-per-pixel png. I could try and find the image on the disk and use that byte-stream instead for a lot of cases, which would bring down file-size if it's a jpeg compressed image.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Leusden, Holland

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on August 30, 2011 at 2:31pm

This would be favourable. Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 30, 2011 at 2:13pm