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DOS graphic 'fractal compression program' - 'Images Iterated III'
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| Þ M o z z i e ³ ¶ 2004-08-21, 3:57 pm |
| Hi,
I'm looking for an old DOS graphic 'fractal compression program'
which is no-longer supported by it's maker.
(iterated.com -tried there already).
It was called 'Images Iterated III' and it could fractally zoom into
images compressed with it to a degree far greater than bitmap
style enlargement, and create very small 24bit FIF non-lossy
output files, or even smaller lossy files too.
Hoping someone/anyone can help. :-)
Regards.
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| Jack Berlin 2004-09-05, 3:55 pm |
| Hello,
Sorry, it was a myth in 1992 and a complete useless piece of code now! When
will the fractal cult die? FIF was bypassed by JPEG in 1992 for compression
(and JPEG 2000 is even better), and bi-cubic interpolation is better than
fractal zoom ever was. Why do you think the format died and the company
moved to a different direction? BTW, there was never a non-lossy version of
FIF.
It was actually called "Images Inc" and yes, I have a copy somewhere as I
was employee number 5 at Iterated Systems, and employee number 4 (or 6,
can't remember) was one of their chief scientists and wrote the software
compressor and zoomer, and is now, like a few others of us, at Pegasus
Imaging Corp. Grab our JPEG Wizard(tm) program, you will love it!
Hope this helps,
jack
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Pegasus - BETTER DIGITAL IMAGING!
http://www.pegasusimaging.com/
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> Hi,
> I'm looking for an old DOS graphic 'fractal compression program'
> which is no-longer supported by it's maker.
> (iterated.com -tried there already).
>
> It was called 'Images Iterated III' and it could fractally zoom into
> images compressed with it to a degree far greater than bitmap
> style enlargement, and create very small 24bit FIF non-lossy
> output files, or even smaller lossy files too.
>
> Hoping someone/anyone can help. :-)
>
> Regards.
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| Kelsey Bjarnason 2004-09-06, 3:55 am |
| [snips]
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:28:15 +0000, Jack Berlin wrote:
> It was actually called "Images Inc" and yes, I have a copy somewhere as I
> was employee number 5 at Iterated Systems, and employee number 4 (or 6,
> can't remember) was one of their chief scientists and wrote the software
> compressor and zoomer, and is now, like a few others of us, at Pegasus
> Imaging Corp. Grab our JPEG Wizard(tm) program, you will love it!
Gah. I remember working with IS's fractal imaging library for DOS.
"Needs 500K free memory!" - in DOS. Not much room left for application
code.
I was so happy to stop using that and start using jpegs.
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| Jim Leonard 2004-09-06, 8:55 am |
| Kelsey Bjarnason <kelseyb@xxnospamyy.lightspeed.bc.ca> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.09.06.00.26.41.174672@xxnospamyy.lightspeed.bc.ca>...
> Gah. I remember working with IS's fractal imaging library for DOS.
> "Needs 500K free memory!" - in DOS. Not much room left for application
> code.
Well, not if you don't use overlays, or EMS, or XMS... there was
always a way to get around it, even if you didn't have more than 640K
of RAM. I agree it was a pain at times but nowhere near as bad as
trying to shoehorn programs into a Commodore 64's 64K of RAM.
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