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| | Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 1 of 4): General Graphics Format Questions |
 | | Interlaced GIFs are used to give the user a idea of that an image looks like before all of the bitmapped data has been received. |
 | | The lines of the same 16-line bitmap in an interlaced GIF would be stored as 0, 8, 4, 12, 2, 6, 10, 14, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15. |
 | | For example, a bitmap with 4-bit pixels will be encoded with an LZW code table initially containing 18 entries: 16 color indicies ranging from 00000 to 01111, a clear code (10000), and a end-of-data code (10001). |
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