Title: Fractal analyser Post by: henk on January 21, 2011, 09:29:43 PM hi,
a few days ago i saw a documentation on youtube where a fractal analyser was shown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjdogjBxfco&feature=related at 4:20 does anybody know how this works and how this could be implementated? if you know a programm working like this would help me also a lot. thanks Title: Re: Fractal analyser Post by: Madman on January 23, 2011, 04:26:15 PM Hi Henk,
I think it was Michael Barnsley who invented fractal image compression. I don't think his company exists anymore, but I believe there are still one or two companies left that market a fractal (de)compression tool. Just google fractal compression and you'll get enough hits to take it from there Title: Re: Fractal analyser Post by: hobold on January 24, 2011, 12:43:07 AM Despite the enthusiasm initially caused by the idea of fractal image compression, the method unfortunately did not live up to expectations. On the other hand, no-one could generally falsify the idea. So in a way the question is still open, and fractal image compression continues to live on as a tantalizing concept. The insignificant opinion of this one poster here is that fractal image compression is sort of an overspecialization on one single image type: all those pictures with detail on all scales. For those it works very well. But line art, or flat smooth gradients, or very noisy (i.e. chaotic, non-fractal noise) images, just don't fit the fractal model. |