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- From: hhc@athena.mit.edu (Hong-Hsiang Chen)
- Subject: Re: C source for Fractal compression ?
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:33:37 GMT
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- In article <BxIAy0.3Mu@dcs.ed.ac.uk> cdw@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Christopher Walton) writes:
- >Has anyone got any C source for fractal compression or are we all
- >just crying out in vain? Please send me some if you do!
- >
- crying out in vain, methinks...
- >Thanks - Chris (cdw@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
- > "all in the name of ..."
- the only working group doing anything about fractal compression as far as
- I know are the originators, Barnsley et. al.... (correct me if I'm wrong)...
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- don't think they're up to releasing source code though, heh... they've got
- a company (Iterated Systems) to cash in on their research stuff...
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- however, don't bet on anything substantial coming up...in the past 5 years,
- nothing much has been done, though I've heard here and there about some sort
- of compression standard and commercial software based on it...
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- _BUT_ the kicker is that fractal compression is not the holy grail nor panacea
- they thought it would be ... even Barnsley's fantastic figures that got
- everybody excited in the first place used algorithms that were hand-fudged -
- the Collage Theorem doesn't work too well with computers...
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- anyway, the image quality leaves a lot to be desired...
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- the decompression routines are easy to code...
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- it's the compression one that's a bitch and a half - i.e. the collage theorem
- and buddies... blecch...
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- don't look for any freebies here guys...first person to make it really work
- gets all the dough...
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- though IMHO it'll take more than a long while.
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- Sean. fractal compression? like beating someone with the mandelbrot set?
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