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- From: "P. Gathy" <Gathy@isto.ucl.ac.be>
- Subject: Re: Image compression
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- >
- >Does anyone have information on compression routines that are better than
- >JPEG for gray scale and TIFF LWZ for line drawings? We have a lot of
- >images that we need to archive and, at our present compression rates, we
- >will be over a CD.
- >
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- It seems that fractal compression gives better results, according to their
- authors. See the paper: Barnsley M.F. and Sloan A.D., A better way to
- compress images, Byte, 13, 1, 215-223, 1988.
- Some months ago, we gave some of our images (640x480, 256 colors) to compress
- by this method. Compression ratio is very impressive, but for us (in
- histology), the quality of compressed images was not sufficient. I think
- you can decompress your images yourself (with a 386 or 486 machine), but
- compression is slow and needs a very powerful computer or other special
- equipment. The company that developed this method is called Iterated
- Systems, Inc.
-
- Regards,
-
- Philippe Gathy
- Laboratory of histology
- Catholic University of Louvain
- B-1200 Brussels - Belgium
- gathy@isto.ucl.ac.be
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