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- From: jmccorm@a.cs.okstate.edu (MCCORMICK JOSHUA C)
- Subject: Re: GRAPHICS BBS...why bother with JPEG anymore?
- References: <1993Jan7.200849.7021@brtph560.bnr.ca>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.005921.7445@a.cs.okstate.edu>
- Organization: Oklahoma State University
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 00:59:21 GMT
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- From article <1993Jan7.200849.7021@brtph560.bnr.ca>, by ppaglia@bnr.ca (Peter Paglia P925):
- > In the January 1993 issue of BOARDWATCH magazine, there is an
- > ad for Fracterm BBS front-end software. Its claim to fame is
- > that is supports fractal image compression, and you can download
- > and display an svga image in 10-15 seconds, as a function of the
- > front end software. This allows you to browse GIFs visually online,
- > and select your downloads from the images themselves, not just
- > text descriptions.
-
- Actually, that was in there as well quite a number of months ago. How it works
- is interesting. In order to compress the image, they use a plug-in card with
- a processor on it running some compression software. As I remember, the card
- was a little on the expensive side. But, once the image was compressed into
- a fractal image, it could be viewed by anyone with little processor load.
- It looked to be quite impressive, actually.
- >
- > ....I do not speak for anyone!!!
- >
- Not even yourself? [grin]
- >
- >
- >
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