From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Subject: Re: Fractals? What good are they ?
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <mdpyssc.2@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> mdpyssc@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (Sue Cunningham)  
writes:
> We have been using Iterated Systems compression board to compress 
> pathology images and are getting ratios of 40:1 to 70:1 without too
> much loss in quality. It is taking about 4 mins per image to compress,
> on a 25Mhz 486 but decompression is almost real time on a 386 in software 
> alone.

How does that compare with JPEG on the same images and hardware as far
as size, speed, and image quality are concerned?

Despite my skeptical and sometimes nearly rabid postings
criticizing Barnsley and company, I am very interested in the
technique.  If I weren't I probably wouldn't be so critical. :-)

ab