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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: Fractal compression
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.195307.23622@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 19:53:07 GMT
- References: <14026@chorus.fr>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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- In article <14026@chorus.fr>, rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) writes:
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- | You need to supply a date for this observation because Iterated
- | Systems Inc. has 10 full-time mathematicians who do nothing but work
- | on making the fractal compression algorithms more efficient as well as
- | produce higher-quality images for a given file size. I suspect that this
- | observation "quality is considerably worse" is quite dated by now.
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- I have heard something about a lossless fractal method, whereby the
- expansion exactly matches the original, but the image can be scaled to
- yield an approximate image "similar to" the original. This supposedly
- doesn't compress as well but still offeres the ability to scale down
- without extracting and averaging, or up with pseudo-detail filled in.
-
- Does this ring a bell with anyone?
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- | Repeal the personal income tax; vote Libertarian in 1992.
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- No thanks, I don't believe that government can exist on charitable
- donations, and I would rather repeal all other taxes and make the
- government show up front how much they take.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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