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Re: Compression of pictures (e.g. star fields)

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From: Scott Draves
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 05:37
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>>>>> On 27 Aug 92 02:53:43 GMT, phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz said:

mark> Is there a name for the method of compressing video signals
mark> where the distance before a certain amount of brightness change
mark> is stored, instead of the brightness at regular points?

this sounds equivalent to run length encoding (rle).  any survey of
compression should cover this.

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