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From: jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Fractal Image Compression
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.204534.20978@cc.tut.fi>
Date: 14 Jun 91 20:45:34 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.163257.27183@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1991Jun13.150158.16826@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
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In article <1991Jun13.150158.16826@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
hart@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (John C. Hart) writes:
>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?

I think Markus doesn't know them by the name; instead I think Markus
could be a 'new comer' -- and apperently requested answers to questions
as you John presented; how about answering to them by making a good
summary about papers - with a simple describtion of the method they
use - on this field?

Juhana Kouhia