Something that might be helpful to know: line compression is split into chunks of 8 pixels, 32 for each line. Some drawings might achieve better compression by just being better aligned with these chunk borders, say for example you have a horizontal line that's 24 pixels long. It should compress slightly better if it starts and ends at a multiple of 8 on the x axis. If it started at, say, 5 on the x axis, you'd have extra chunk data stored on either side of that 24 pixel line, as opposed to a chunk being skipped instead.
The main reason horizontal lines are so well optimized is because Flipnote Studio will basically skip over a horizontal line if there are no pixels drawn onto it.
Well this was pretty rigorous :0
I think it may be worth mentioning that I have been told by people who know better than me that flipnote also saves certain chunks of pixels, kinda like minecraft. So some perfectly horizontal lines can take up less space purely based on size and positioning. So that could be why you saw that variety in space taken up when you simply made a segment horizontally longer.
Re: Your welcome, I find this information very interesting while I never thought the memory storage could be analyzed like this, and so I thank you for that
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Something that might be helpful to know: line compression is split into chunks of 8 pixels, 32 for each line. Some drawings might achieve better compression by just being better aligned with these chunk borders, say for example you have a horizontal line that's 24 pixels long. It should compress slightly better if it starts and ends at a multiple of 8 on the x axis. If it started at, say, 5 on the x axis, you'd have extra chunk data stored on either side of that 24 pixel line, as opposed to a chunk being skipped instead.
The main reason horizontal lines are so well optimized is because Flipnote Studio will basically skip over a horizontal line if there are no pixels drawn onto it.
Well this was pretty rigorous :0
I think it may be worth mentioning that I have been told by people who know better than me that flipnote also saves certain chunks of pixels, kinda like minecraft. So some perfectly horizontal lines can take up less space purely based on size and positioning. So that could be why you saw that variety in space taken up when you simply made a segment horizontally longer.
Re: Your welcome, I find this information very interesting while I never thought the memory storage could be analyzed like this, and so I thank you for that