Chaos Theory - Yes!

Ryan Heise (rheise@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:05:32 +1000 (EST)

If anyone else is excited by fractals etc. have a look at

http://www.iterated.com/

They have created a new image format which uses the method of fractal
compression to make image files so small, you no longer need to wait yonks
for graphics to download from the internet. It compresses image files by
a factor of 50:1

I'll just type it again in case you think it was a typo - 50:1

This compression method can be used (I have heard) to compress data files
up to 200 times smaller ie. you could fit a whole encyclopedia onto a floppy
disk. The only problem is that the algorithm to extract the real data is
almost purely iterative and you could be waiting a long time for a 100k
file to decompress to a 5 megabyte file.

Still, have a look at the demos provided at the site.

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