Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Fractals Everywhere

Author:	Sean Lindsay
Posted:	7/7/2000; 7:25:34 PM
Topic:	Fractals Everywhere
Msg #:	18386 (In response to 18378)
Prev/Next:	18385 / 18387

I remember the issue of fractal image compression being a hot topic a couple of years ago, as at least one company actually brought a file format (.FIF) to market.

Unfortunately the company in question, Iterated Systems, kept the format closed, demanding a royalty for any software implementations. As a result, the format died. Iterated's website no longer even mentions the format.

Alatmira maintains the format as a plugin for Photoshop, but that's the only current implementation I could find.

This 1997 page has a good introductory article to the use of fractal image compression, with some examples of the results: http://www.rasip.fer.hr/research/compress/algorithms/adv/fraccomp/

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