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Here's the promised video of my Nepenthes snacking (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 6 days ago by Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

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I converted into a GIF, but somehow the file size increased from 4 to 120 MB 🥴
So, here's the video :)

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[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Gifs have a compressed look to them because it's quite limited in number of colours it can have. But gifs are ~acrually uncompressed~ barely compressed lossless images, similar to .bmp (bitmaps).

Edit: Clarified GIFs are actually compressed, just lossless.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

GIF does do some mild compression (with an algorithm from 1984). But the compression is lossless like bitmap, if that's what you mean...

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks for pointing it out. I forgot if they were actually compressed or not.

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