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> [On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:25:22 -0500, Matt Giwer <jul### [at] ij net>]
> | The bad news is that in 1996 (95?) when I wrote my quick and dirty
> | HTML guide I mentioned that fractal compression was coming to browsers.
> | I'll believe it when I see it.
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> There's a big difference here. No successful fractal compression
> algoithm exist. There surely is a great potential here, but no
> algorithm for effectively turning an image into a set of fractal
> functions.
As I saw it, the problem was the decompression routine was free. The
compression routine was hardware only at about $300 or so. Out of my interest
and league for a one function card.
> JPEG2000 however uses well known algorithms, and an implementation
> already exists. It's written in Java, so you could have
> JPEG2000 images in your browser today.
In fact a quick look says I have such a plugin on Netscape but I don't
remember ever coming across such a file -- nor do I remember ever installing
such a thing so it likely came with.
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