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From: sw@mdavcr.UUCP (Scott Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Fractal Compression
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Date: 17 Dec 90 23:40:25 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.102951.6334@newcastle.ac.uk> <1990Dec17.171417.12499@funet.fi>
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In article <1990Dec17.171417.12499@funet.fi> jk87377@korppi.tut.fi (Kouhia Juhana Krister) writes:
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>Maybe I remember wrong, but I have never seen an original pictures of
>the compressed pictures.
>Have somebody seen them? Would somebody describe the differences
>between the original and the compressed pictures?
>

The October 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum had an original and compresssed
picture of a field of sunflowers. Aside from the fact that the original
had an airplane in it, and the compressed didn't (it was removed) I
found it difficult to match up the original and the compressed image.
It's kind of difficult to describe the compressed image, except that to
me it looked more like a painting than a photograph. The sunflowers had
a sort of abstract quality. The compression ratio was 2000 to 1.

scott
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