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Lossless. Compression techniques do not remove detail from the image.
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Pict files can use 2 different forms of compression. 1- RLE Compression (the default) is lossless. 2- JPEG compression (only on some systems/graphics programmes) is lossy.
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plane waves in lossy dielectrics
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File compression uses software algorithms to reduce file size by reducing the bit-rate of a file. Lossy compression takes it a bit further and lowers the quality of thr file to make it even smaller. Lossy compression is commonly used for media files, but would not be appropriate for other types of files.
Lossy= You lose somedata Lossless= You dont
GIF is a lossless compression introduced by CompuServe in 1987 using Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression.
The areas of compression are lossless compression and lossy compression. Lossless compression reduces the file size without sacrificing any data quality, while lossy compression reduces the file size by discarding some data, which may lead to a decrease in quality.
Apple's iTunes software (www.apple.com/itunes/download/) can convert the files easily, and as they're both lossless formats you won't lose any fidelity as a result.