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From: sidney@borland.com (Sidney Markowitz)
Subject: looking for info on image compression
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.051453.23477@borland.com>
Organization: Borland International
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 05:14:53 GMT

I'm interested on information on compression techniques that are
suitable for images, where exact reproduction of the data is not
necessary after decompression, as long as the result looks ok as an
image. I've heard that there are, for example, fractal techniques that
achieve much better compression on images than standard data
compression techniques, like LZW, with which I'm familiar. Can anyone
point me to some references to look up and/or some example code that
can be ftp'd? How good compression can you get for different
resolutions in typical images? Thanks.

  -- sidney markowitz <sidney@borland.com>