| Abstract from DBPedia | The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; /ɡɪf/ GHIF or /dʒɪf/ JIF , ) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. It is in widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability between applications and operating systems. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of up to 256 colors for each frame. These palette limitations make GIF less suitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with color gradients, but well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color. GIF images are compressed using the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality.Graphics Interchange Format（グラフィックス・インターチェンジ・フォーマット、略称GIF）とはCompuServeのPICSフォーラムで提唱された画像ファイルフォーマットの一つ。LZW特許を使用した画像圧縮が可能。一般的に用いられている拡張子は.gif。「ギフ」または「ジー・アイ・エフ」と読まれることもあるがOxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year 2012 に "GIF" が選出された際のインタビューにおいて設計者のスティーブ・ウィルハイトは「jif（ジフ）」が正しい読み方と述べている。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/GIF) |
