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- From: tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony Yen)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.research
- Subject: Scaling Down 24-bit Pix
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 17:58:57 GMT
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- I was just talking with a friend of mine today, and he asked about the
- market viability for a package that scales down JPEG format 24-bit or
- 32-bit pictures to 16-bit or 8-bit depths. I made some noises of
- dubiousness, pointing out that there are plenty of algorithms with
- nice implementations (in code frags or even complete programs) out
- which do exactly that right now. He countered that the package could
- make it in the market if it used the results of some multi-million
- dollar government-sponsored Los Alamos project which focused on how to
- compress high-quality images with little or no data loss.
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- Frankly, I'm kind of doubtful about this. Notwithstanding the
- standard mathematical proof which shows the infeasibility of
- outrageous compression claims, I'm not convinced that the package
- would be a big hit because it is so specialized; its market would be a
- subset of the already small set of high-end graphics users.
-
- Could someone please confirm or refute the possibility of such a piece
- of software?
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