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New compression technique (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whatever happened to fractal image compression, which compressed an image by finding parts similar to larger regions of the picture, so that is could reconstruct the image from itself.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It only works if the image is actually fractal-like. Real world is a bitch

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Sometimes the world is a Mandel Bro and sometimes it isn't.

[–] phonics@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Were in a fractal just too zoomed in to notice

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

Actually, a simulation of a fractal