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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