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'''Empty Pic''' (also '''Empty Picture''') by Robert Wallingford is a DOS program that hides the content of any [[GIF]] by making it look like a single solid color.
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'''Empty Picture''' (long name: '''Wallingford EMPTY PICTURE System''') by Robert Wallingford is a DOS program that hides the content of any [[GIF]] by making it look like a single solid color.
  
It stores a copy of the color palette at the end in the "comment extension blocks." It then overwrites the original color palette so every color is the same.
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It stores a copy of the color palette at the end of the file, after the trailer, formatted like a "comment extension." It then overwrites the original color palette so every color is the same.
  
  
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== Links ==
 
== Links ==
 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20000901044635/http://www.crtelco.com/~robertw/ Homepage (archived)]
 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20000901044635/http://www.crtelco.com/~robertw/ Homepage (archived)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20000819042615im_/http://www.crtelco.com/~robertw/bgrw1.gif Sample file]
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** [https://web.archive.org/web/20000901044635/http://www.crtelco.com/~robertw/emptypic.zip Software]
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** [https://web.archive.org/web/20000819042615im_/http://www.crtelco.com/~robertw/bgrw1.gif Sample file] (borderline NSFW)
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[[Category:Graphics]]

Latest revision as of 16:53, 12 November 2023

File Format
Name Empty Picture
Ontology
Released 1997

Empty Picture (long name: Wallingford EMPTY PICTURE System) by Robert Wallingford is a DOS program that hides the content of any GIF by making it look like a single solid color.

It stores a copy of the color palette at the end of the file, after the trailer, formatted like a "comment extension." It then overwrites the original color palette so every color is the same.


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