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To: Brown Deer
Interesting how the background is all discolored around the letters in his name...
It is interesting. It's an artifact of vector quantizing lossy compression algorithms. Compression systems such as JFIF will unavoidably have distortion around sharp edges due to the nature of discrete cosine transforms. Interesting stuff, indeed.
91 posted on 10/11/2008 1:00:29 PM PDT by Mr. Know It All (Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem)
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To: Mr. Know It All
Interesting stuff, indeed.

Yes, I have many years of experience in the field of digitized imagery. ;)
97 posted on 10/11/2008 1:09:33 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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