DOS graphic 'fractal compression program' - 'Images Iterated III'

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.

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
--
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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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.

Kelsey Bjarnason <kelseyb@xxnospamyy.lightspeed.bc.ca> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.09.0
6.00.26.41.174672@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.