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- From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
- Subject: Re: new better than jpeg?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.162859.19286@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:28:59 GMT
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- >> powered by the C-Cube chip. They announce their method as being
- >> different from and better than JPEG. Their software also deal with JPEG
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- Highly likely. JPEG does a global quantization, irregardless of the
- local image content. You can do much better, especially if you can
- fit the image in memory, or at least take two or more passes through it.
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- Mark Adler
- madler@tybalt.caltech.edu
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