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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: new better than jpeg?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.135534.16724@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:55:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.162859.19286@cco.caltech.edu>, madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
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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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- I think that a better algorithm would only be widely accepted if it
- was a standard and if multiple sources offered implementations working
- with a common filetype. That doesn't mean this method won't be useful or
- popular, it certainly can be better than JPEG as Mark points out.
- However, if it's really good someone will reverse engineer it and make a
- public version available.
-
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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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