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

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From: John Nagle
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:06

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       You could probably come up with a fractal compression scheme for
star fields that would compress an entire sky down to a few KB.  Of course,
the lesser stars wouldn't be in the same places after decompression, but
who would notice?

					John Nagle

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