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  1. Apple Animation 
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  3. Best for images whose colors vary sharply and infrequently.
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  5. Examples:  Computer-generated images and animation; line art. 
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  7. Compresses by storing only each color change and the number of pixels in a row until the next color change. This compression method is called run-length encoding.