From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2009-12-08T01:56:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading Images

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Alexandro Kez <alexandro.mail@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, no... I really like ruby, but this is just ridiculous such a high
> level language and no way to deal with such types of data?...
>

A JPEG is not a list of pixel values.  That's a bitmap.  JPEG uses
some awesome and very complex  mathematics to compress the image size
without losing much in the way of photo quality.  Ruby can cope with
JPEGs - you should look at the gist URL Rob provided or at RMagick.
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