Quote:Original post by entropy_metric
My current estimates are my smallest files are 15 megs for a compressed JPEG file. Really complex graphs can go as high as 50 megs.
My current research involves graphing social networks from data mined data.
The resolutions for these jpegs are insanley huge.
My current CPU is a dual core 3.2 ghz. Ram is 512 megs.
I'm starting to think I might have to code custom software for viewing these files. I need to be able to anaylze these social networks in totality so splitting them into chunks is not a very good option. Anymore ideas? |
To repeat the very first reply made in this thread (my own), stating the size of a
JPEG is useless to anyone involved in image manipulation. Understand that JPEG is a
lossy,
compressed file format that can be scaled by a huge degree. 15MB could mean a near lossless JPEG of a high resolution digital camera photo (still easily manipulated in Photoshop on even a low end system like yours) or it could mean a very lossy 1 million x 1 million pixel image.
There is only one piece of remotely useful advice that can be provided based on scientic terms like "insanley huge" is that your computer is badly designed: 512MB of memory is entry level - people using Photoshop or any other media manipulation program typically start at 1GB, I use 2GB. You are also stuck with a Pentium D, which attempts to squeeze two processor cores through a single archaic front side bus to the north bridge. When dealing with image data of even trivial size the CPU cache is rendered useless, meaning all image data is getting streamed through that tiny bus, making an already slow, badly designed CPU run even slower because it's spending all its time waiting on memory fetches.
In order to help you better use your images, make a piece of custom software, or better format the images in the first place, you need to provide some quantitative information:
How big are the images, as measured in pixels? For example an image you might use for wallpaper on your desktop might be 1280x1024 (where the image is 1280 pixels wide, and 1024 pixels high). In Photoshop use Image->Image Size and see the width and height measured in pixels (it will also show the image size in "M", which is for how many million pixels there are)
What kind of images are they? Photographs? 3D renders? 2D renders using a small color palette (not many different colors, like a bar graph)? 2D renders with lots of gradiants?
Why are they being saved as JPEGs? What program is producing them?
