Metapost: I'm writing a guide and I have questions...
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 8:07 pm
I'm writing a combinatory guide and would like it hosted on these forums. In particular, I'd like to have all of the GIFs that I'm making loaded on these forums and served out. Combinators are a very visual tool, so animations and diagrams are a must. I've written approximately 40% of the guide at the moment and have roughly 24 pictures available. The PNGs are small (only a few hundred kb). But about 15 of them are GIFs right now. Each GIF is 2MB to 5MB (after -k256 and -O3 optimization from Gifcicle). So image hosting will easily hit 100MB or maybe even 200MB by the time the guide is complete.
So yeah, it'd definitely take up a bit more bandwidth than the Image-heavy Train Guide. Now I know that I can upload to Gfycat, but relying on external hosting means less reliability. So I'd prefer to just upload all of the images as inline attachments to the forum post.
If this is too abstract for people to understand... my first few sections of the guide are in draft-form. (All pictures are done, just editing for better readability right now). I can upload it so that people get a better idea of the bandwidth requirements. Another possibility: I can break up the guide into multiple topics (aka: Part1, Part2, Part3, etc. etc.) which would reduce bandwidth requirements. I have approximately three sections (first section has one picture for the introduction. The other two sections have about ~10-images each)
Anyone have a good methodology for this kind of guide?
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I'm posting this in "Gameplay help" because I plan on writing the guide and posting it here, in "Gameplay Help". I couldn't think of a better subforum to place this question into... sorry if there's a better spot to ask this question. I couldn't think of one.
So yeah, it'd definitely take up a bit more bandwidth than the Image-heavy Train Guide. Now I know that I can upload to Gfycat, but relying on external hosting means less reliability. So I'd prefer to just upload all of the images as inline attachments to the forum post.
If this is too abstract for people to understand... my first few sections of the guide are in draft-form. (All pictures are done, just editing for better readability right now). I can upload it so that people get a better idea of the bandwidth requirements. Another possibility: I can break up the guide into multiple topics (aka: Part1, Part2, Part3, etc. etc.) which would reduce bandwidth requirements. I have approximately three sections (first section has one picture for the introduction. The other two sections have about ~10-images each)
Anyone have a good methodology for this kind of guide?
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I'm posting this in "Gameplay help" because I plan on writing the guide and posting it here, in "Gameplay Help". I couldn't think of a better subforum to place this question into... sorry if there's a better spot to ask this question. I couldn't think of one.