one of the best and most interestinnnng compression routines I've worked with
was the FIF format, it searched for a fractal match of an edge in the image, and
applied it, thus saving very much space, at a big cost of compression time.
This format fitted very well on photos of higher resolution(640x480 and up),
since the way it searched and matched data made it possible to zoom into theese
images with a match that was higher than to zoom into the real pixel-based
image. (due to the nature of fractals) 

Just my musings on data-complression...


Ken wrote:
> 
> portelli wrote:
> >
> >         Have a look at this page.  http://www.cengines.com/cehome.htm  It has s
> > really good compression engine.  They show a demo of compressing a 750Kb
> > file down to 8Kb and it still looks pretty good. Check it out.
> 
>  Steven Pigeon who most of you know by now once worked on a project related
> to data compression. The link he gave me one time to see how well the sofware
> they developed worked left me saying wow too. I am surprised that there
> are not more products coming out now offering these advanced compression
> techniques but I suppose that with this amount of compression one must
> be careful about what they apply it to or data loss can cancel it's
> effectiveness.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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