Actually, the link that started this post is a link to a wavelet compression
util. :-)

As for the FIF format, I have several viewers that can handle it, and I once had
a writer, sadly enough it was lost a looong time ago(four or five reformats...)

and, I wasn't working ON the FIF project, I was working with the FIF compressor,
and reading up on the algorithm. It was back when I liked doing demos, and I
madee some implementations of it with edge detection(didn't work for many
images) and trying to find a fractal match(Brute force). Needless to say, I
didn't succeed at all.. *hehe*

As for format definitions, I don't know whether it is public or if it is
licenced in some way. It would be nice to see it public(Bye bye JPEGS).


Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 04:52:12 +0200, Spider <spi### [at] bahnhofse> wrote:
> 
> >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...
> 
> You were working with the FIF or were you working *on* the FIF? If the
> latter, wow! I remember I've seen some fractal compression format in
> Corel 7 (or was it Corel 8?) and it made wonders, esp. to b&w photos
> of natural objects. I was curious then, would this format be public
> soon? As I see it, no, and that's a pity.
> 
> How about wavelet compression? AFAIR it had something to do with
> Fourier analysis of the image (like in JPEG) but compression and
> quality seemed to overcome JPEG by a factor.
> 
> Just keeping my fingers occupied :)
> 
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> Peter Popov
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