#JPEG vs. GIF
28-Feb-95 14:38:41
Sb: #186788-#JPEG vs. GIF
Fm: John Gager 71336,624
To: Christian Busse 100121,1360
I read the article about Fractal Compression in Byte also Christian <g>.
It was an interesting article! I haven't seen too much on it since then. I
believe the article was written by two people who were part of a company
using the technology, and they haven't released much information. I would
imagine that they want to keep a close watch on it to keep it proprietary.
From what I understand, MicroSoft's "Encarta" CD uses Fractal compression
for the images, at least I read that somewhere. I do have some source code
of fractal compression routines that was posted in the Graphics Support
forum, but it only handles Greyscale images. One of these days I'll dig it
out and do some playing with it.
// John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840)
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