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- From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
- Subject: Re: Transporters & replicators
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- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 07:19:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.000048.6901@pro-smof.cts.com> shiva@pro-smof.cts.com (System Smof) writes:
- >So transporters are 3-D JPEG instead of 3-D GIF, right? :-)
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- Well, I'd wager that replicators are similar to 3-D JPEG -
- storing all relevant data (16.3 million colors, by analogy),
- with lossy compression.
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- Transporters would be some funky 32-bit lossless uncompressed
- scheme, likely a 3-D TIFF file data stream, with patterns (the
- tags) telling the transporter which bits of data to put where.
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- A 3-D GIF file would be only 8 bits, perhaps a massive 75% signal
- loss. Don't wanna be beamed through that. :)
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- Joshua
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