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Presents a book/CD-ROM package on fractal imaging using affine transformations, focusing on applications in digital image compression. Overviews current compression technologies, and tells how to generate fractal objects, model real world images, and store and transmit data and information in the compressed fractal form. Assumes a working knowledge of college-level mathematics and computer science, and some experience in digital signal and image processing. There is a chapter on mathematical background. The companion CD-ROM contains Windows software that produces
Fractal Image Format (FIF) files for use in Web pages. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Synopsis
Basic rules govern our universe, and an understanding of these rules makes a wide array of subjects crystal-clear. Fractal is such a rule: it completely describes the geometry of a leaf in 24 numbers. This book tells how to apply this fractal rule to photographic images. Read more...