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From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: looking for info on image compression
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Date: 26 Mar 91 22:19:18 GMT
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In article <1991Mar25.051453.23477@borland.com> sidney@borland.com (Sidney Markowitz) writes:
>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 saw some very good images which had been compressed to 1 bit per
pixel (B&W).  This was many years ago -- at the Univ. of Utah --
by students working under Professor Thomas G. Stockham.