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- From: videoking@mbox200.swipnet.se (Johan Otterstrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Fractal compression for Amiga?
- Date: 24 Mar 96 15:19:57 -500
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- >In article <472.6656T105T1583@mbox200.swipnet.se>,
- >videoking@mbox200.swipnet.se (Johan Otterstrom) writes:
- >>I've been reading about fractal compression for images. And from what I
- >>heard images compressed 100:1 still looks good, aposed to JPEG the really
- >>messes up pictures.
- >>
- >>I've even seen that Kodak is offering PC owners to get their film developed
- >>and all images on one! disk, complete with display software.
- >>
- >>I also heard that the American police uses this compression to get images of
- >>suspects to police in the field.
- >>
- >>Is there any program on the Amiga for this compression?
- >>
- >Not sure about fractal compression, but there is supposed to be a wavlet
- >compression system for the Amiga in the works - saw a mention of it, but
- >I'll have to go looking for it again.
-
- >Mike
-
- I picked up an archive on Aminet "fractalcompression" but I haven't had time
- to check it out. From what I've read about it it compresses slowly but
- decompresses much faster than JPEG. Perhas the new standard for videoediting
- with a hardware codec.
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