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Re:Fractal compression for generating resolution-independent... by gretful on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:28PM (#8707302)
I saw this back in '90, showing an aquarium, zooming into a goldfish, zooming into its eyeball, and then zooming into the Earth. I always wondered what happened to the tech. The company was IFS, IIRC.
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Re:Fractal compression for generating resolution-independent... by abcd_f on Saturday December 06, 2014 @05:11AM (#8708866)
Sounds like a demo for a multi-resolution image file format rather than something to do with the fractal compression per se.
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Re:Fractal compression for generating resolution-independent... by gretful on Thursday December 11, 2014 @12:44PM (#8736041)
nah, the guy that demoed it talked about iterated fractals (hence the IFS company name). And this was EARLY 90's, a black and white laptop.
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