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From: hart@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (John C. Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Fractal Image Compression
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.150158.16826@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 15:01:58 GMT
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mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:

>I've heard about a fractal image compression algorithm. It has been
>developped by two US mathematicians and has similar compression ratios
>as JPEG.

>I think this sounds like a quite interessting topic and I'd appreciate
>if anyone would post a small description of the idea behind this method.

Which fractal image compression algorithm? There are several... Who are the
mathematicians?

-John Hart
 Electronic Visualization Laboratory
 University of Illinois at Chicago