Quote Originally Posted by jbgibson View Post
When you mentioned counted cross stitch I thought "cool - a tangible version of the .gif file standard" Gif is basically a list of "Color 1 for 16 pixels, then color2 for 2 pixels, then color3 for nine pixels, then color1 for 1 pixel" ... that sort of encoding. With a limit of 256 colors,
Actually GIF uses a Dictionary compression system, not Run Length Encoding.