Sorry.  I love this stuff.  Do you remember the indiana jones scene where the 
ninja guy is comming at him with swinging knives... And he just pulls out a gun 
and shoots him?  That is what great ideas do. 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Luis" <[email protected]>
To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]>
Sent: 2/1/2009 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ot] fractal graphic filter

No wonder I wake up with a headache.

Cheers,

Luis.


Randall Reetz wrote:
> The problem with fractal compression is that it like all compression schemes 
> is usually applied indiscriminately to a whole file.  A scheme that works 
> best for some data doesnt always work best for others.  The real breakthrough 
> will involve an entropy metric that can be used to self optimize a scheme to 
> regions and others other other regions... Setting up a topograhic mapping of 
> compressions as directed by the morphology of that data.  Do that and you can 
> selectively and accurately reduce an image (or any other data set) to more 
> general terms.  For instance, if a filter were able to extract obects 
> (humans, plants, buildings, furnature, infrastructure, land use, animals, 
> equipment) into semantic primitives, it sould describe and store reality the 
> way our brains do while we sleep.  Achieving million-to-one compression 
> ratios.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "stephen barncard" <[email protected]>
> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]>
> Sent: 2/1/2009 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [ot] fractal graphic filter
> 
> I wonder if they're cross platform. If they didn't say, probably not.  PC
> only?
> 
> 2009/2/1 viktoras d. <[email protected]>
> 
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