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  2. From: spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.compression.research
  4. Subject: Re: Compression of pictures (e.g. star fields)
  5. Message-ID: <Bts7n0.4Lo.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: 30 Aug 92 05:37:48 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug26.145343.534@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
  8. Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System)
  9. Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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  11. In-Reply-To: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz's message of 27 Aug 92 02:53:43 GMT
  12. Originator: spot@HOPELESS.MESS.CS.CMU.EDU
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  15. >>>>> On 27 Aug 92 02:53:43 GMT, phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz said:
  16.  
  17. mark> Is there a name for the method of compressing video signals
  18. mark> where the distance before a certain amount of brightness change
  19. mark> is stored, instead of the brightness at regular points?
  20.  
  21. this sounds equivalent to run length encoding (rle).  any survey of
  22. compression should cover this.
  23.  
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  25.             grenada
  26. Scott Draves        panama
  27. spot@cs.cmu.edu        iraq
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