Date   : Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:31:31 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Manual GIF creation

On 10/04/2012 07:55 PM, J.G.Harston wrote:
> Jules Richardson wrote:
>>> J.G.Harston wrote:
>>>> Streuth! Adding that single additional byte gets me a working GIF!
>>> Getting there... http://mdfs.net/Apps/Graphics/Conversion/GIFSamples   :)
>>
>> Nice! Are you going to add compression to them, though? They're a bit
>> on
>> the large side :)
>
> Yes, getting the containerisation working was the first step.

I don't know how you are with LZW (I think you've mentioned code related to 
it before, so you probably know way more about it than I do!), but I found 
the following (with a GIF slant) which looks like a nice explanation:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~amer/CISC651/lzw.and.gif.explained.html

cheers

Jules