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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr. Peter Kittel, Commodore Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: What is GIF?!!??
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 07:27:03 GMT
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- In article <bburdeau.05bl@redorc.chi.il.us> bburdeau@redorc.chi.il.us (Bob Burdeau) writes:
- >PMBC??? Lossless image compression? I like the sound of that.
-
- Me too. Recently I saw a show on TV and they had a HD floppy for PC
- (no floptical, real standard) and this disk carried a *huge* number of
- full-size pictures, perhaps it was 200. They said there was a special
- compression procedure used that reduced the images to fractal formulas
- and only these formulas were stored. I'm doing hard to believe that,
- as the pictures were standard images of houses, people, landscapes, etc.
- But it obviously lead to phantastic compression rates (sure with losses).
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- Does anybody know more about this? At least the name of the algorithm?
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- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions...
- Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
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