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From: andrew@berlioz (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: SigGraph Fractal Compression
Summary: a bone fide company DOES exist, though
Keywords: did anyone see this at siggraph?
Message-ID: <601@berlioz.nsc.com>
Date: 7 Aug 89 20:29:55 GMT
References: <2037@netcom.UUCP> <444@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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In article <444@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) writes:
> I saw it. People here were a bit skeptical about the thing, and the guy who
> made it was not interested in talking to people who knew about fractal
> compression, only those who would buy it. What a "suit."

Michael Barnsley, author of "Fractals Everywhere" has formed a company.
If you read this book, you'll have no doubt about HIS integrity.
The company is Iterated Systems, Inc., Norcross/Atlanta, Ga.
Their most recent product (quoted in Electronic Design, Feb 23 1989):

"A fractal-based compression system... determines the iterated function
system (IFS) codes... storing these takes a few hundred bytes..until now,
finding the correct codes took a trained operator several hours on a Sun
workstation. With this new technique, data is compressed automatically,
taking about an hour. Decompression takes minutes."
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