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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.

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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