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From: jesse@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Driver)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Image Compression Algorithms
Summary: image compression
Message-ID: <11062@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 16:22:16 GMT
References: <11357@duorion.cair.du.edu>
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In article <11357@duorion.cair.du.edu>, trichard@udenva.cair.du.edu (J. Thomas Richardson) writes:
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> 
> I am looking for a fast data compression algorithm for digital image
> files (TARGA).  If anyone could email me the sources of books, articles,etc.
> where such algorithms might be discussed, I would greatly appreciate it.
> I would also be interested in knowing about "favorite" or "non-documented"
> algorithms used in recent applications.  I need an algorithm that will
> work well "on the fly".  Much appreciated!
> 
> Thomas Richardson
> 
> email:  trichard@orion.cair.du.edu  or trichard@DUCAIR.BITNET
> USmail:  2075 So. University Blvd., P.O. BOX 105, Denver, CO 80210
Thomas,

  I work at the Center for High Performance Computing at the University
of Texas. Recently, we learned of the SCRY image compression suite of
programs. This public domain software package was announced at Supercomputing
'88, and uses several image compression methods which have been published
over the years in the SIGGRAPH proceedings. For ftp-ing the stuff (login:
"anonymous" password: "guest") go to csam.lbl.gov, 128.3.254.6 .
This distribution is just over 1MBy in compressed form. Look in the 
/pub/scry.tar.Z directory(use binary mode with ftp). We have compiled
this code to work on our Sun 3's. With OS 4.0 we had to change one
line in the code.  SCRY performs more than just image compression, however
this is what we are initially interested in. There are a whole suite of these
compression methods in the package, which you may chose based on your image
characteristics . I recommend this package. - Happy Compressing, Jesse Driver.