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		gretful on Dec 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fractal compression for generating resolution-inde... I saw this back in '90, showing an aquarium, zooming into a goldfish, zooming into its eyeball, and then zooming into the Earth. I always wondered what happened to the tech. The company was IFS, IIRC.

abcd_f on Dec 6, 2014 [–]

Sounds like a demo for a multi-resolution image file format rather than something to do with the fractal compression per se.

gretful on Dec 11, 2014 | [–]

nah, the guy that demoed it talked about iterated fractals (hence the IFS company name). And this was EARLY 90's, a black and white laptop.

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