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- From: thornton@carson.u.washington.edu (Kenneth Thornton)
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: Image storing and fractals
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 03:49:06 GMT
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- >The people doing the work are headed by Michael Barnsley,
- >previously of Georgia Tech. They patented their algorithm,
- >but a book on the techniques has just appeared (see the post
- >on the new fractal image compression book).
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- I didn't think algorithms could be patented.
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- I would like to order the patent if someone can post
- the relevant info (patent #, etc..)
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