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- From: hurd@math.gatech.EDU (Lyman Hurd)
- Subject: fractal book
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:47:02 GMT
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- I am pleased to announce the arrival of the book:
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- Fractal Image Compression
- by Michael Barnsley and Lyman Hurd.
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- hardbound 244 pages, 16 color plates
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- A sequel to Fractals Everywhere, Fractal Image Compression describes the
- mathematics underlying the Fractal Transform an image compression method
- discovered by Michael Barnsley and developed at Iterated Systems. Topics
- include:
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- * Iterated Function Systems
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- * Local IFS and the Black and White Fractal Transform
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- * The Grayscale Fractal Transform
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- * Information Theory
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- * Huffman codes
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- * Arithmetic Codes
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- * JPEG Image Compression
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- Example programs in C are interspersed throughout the text.
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- Copies of the book are available direct from one of the authors. Send
- check (payable to Lyman Hurd or Hurd Enterprises) for $49.95 US (this
- includes shipping) to:
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- Hurd Enterprises
- P.O. Box 888575
- Atlanta, GA 30356
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- Residents of GA please add sales tax.
-