when ideas bleep
the mouse clicks
16.7 million colors & 24-bit color palette dip
pixels instantly reap
cut & paste
morph & warp
rotate or flip
pix is just within a click
tween or tweak, apply masks or filter tricks
be it image solarized, blurred or crisp
formatted in pct, bmp or tiff
all must be resampled to 256 color & 8-bit
jpeg or gif
to be beefed up in TCP/IP -- the Internet beat
however, any high resolution or subtle graphics
just cannot withstand this scaled-down beat
hence poor quality image creep
bandwidth, the cyber-weep!
Lin Hsin Hsin
Mar 28, 1996