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  1. Newsgroups: comp.compression.research
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!wupost!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!nagle
  3. From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
  4. Subject: Re: Compression of pictures (e.g. star fields)
  5. Message-ID: <1xgn1ca.nagle@netcom.com>
  6. Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 18:06:47 GMT
  7. Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
  8. References: <1992Aug26.145343.534@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <Bts7n0.4Lo.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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  11.        You could probably come up with a fractal compression scheme for
  12. star fields that would compress an entire sky down to a few KB.  Of course,
  13. the lesser stars wouldn't be in the same places after decompression, but
  14. who would notice?
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  16.                     John Nagle
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