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RE: filmscanners: (anti)compression?
>It turns out that it is impossible to create lossless compression scheme
>that does not cause some files to expand in size. A set of random files
>always expands. There is no way to encode the random information that does
>not take up at least as much space as the original file. Because of this,
>any image that contains lots of random noise tends to compress much less
>than a high quality image with little noise.
What about Genuine Fractals compression which claims non lossy
compression and small file size.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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