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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Subject: Re: C source for Fractal compression, huh !
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.184754.3170@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- References: <MICHAEL.92Nov13144140@pullet.lanl.gov>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:47:54 GMT
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- michael@pullet.lanl.gov (Michael I Angerman) writes:
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- > for some very well defined, small finite set, fractal
- >compression may work ok, but the general problem is far from there.
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- May an innocent ask a couple of questions.
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- Doesn't Information Theory set a limit
- on the degree of compression (of given data) possible?
- If you go beyond this limit
- do you not necessarily lose information?
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- Is this view accepted by the fractal compression salesmen?
- Do they perhaps accept that information is lost,
- but claim that it is second-rate information?
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- Timothy Murphy
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