OT: New image compression algorythm

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Branko Vukelic
Jan 14, 2004
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I’ve heard on the news that my fellow Serb invented an algorythm that can compress images and sounds at 1:30,000 ratio!!!

That’d mean hundreds of high-res images on a single floppy disk. I’ve not seen anything about it on the Internet, but it’s been maybe a week or two since he talked about it. I think it was on some IT expo or something…

He also mentioned some 3D renderer that’s much faster then anything that had been released (DirectX, OpenGL) and works on 386 machines much fasted than the current ones work on a P4…

As for ordinary data compression, 7-zip seems to have the highest ratio yet at circa 1:64. It’s pretty damn slow, too. It takes about a day and a half to compress 4Gb of data om my 1GHz Celleron with 256Mb RAM. It yields quite a small file, tho (if I remember correctly, about 800Mb).

If anyone digs somehting up on this topic, let us all know.


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Eddysign
Jan 15, 2004
Well that sounds familiar.
A couple of years ago, there was a dutch man who invented something similar. It sounded almost impossible.(he could put several movies on a creditcard !) He demonstrated the thing to several people.
He kept the secret at first but then he desided he would sell it to Philips (a dutch company).
The day before he would hand over the secret he died of a heard atack !!! They examined his machines but it was too well proteted, so they didnt get it.

I have seen the story on tv but a never discovert if it was a true story (although it was on the news).
It might be a hoax.

Greetings from Holland,
Edwin Bont

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I’ve heard on the news that my fellow Serb invented an algorythm that can compress images and sounds at 1:30,000 ratio!!!

That’d mean hundreds of high-res images on a single floppy disk. I’ve not seen anything about it on the Internet, but it’s been maybe a week or two since he talked about it. I think it was on some IT expo or something…
He also mentioned some 3D renderer that’s much faster then anything that had been released (DirectX, OpenGL) and works on 386 machines much fasted than the current ones work on a P4…

As for ordinary data compression, 7-zip seems to have the highest ratio
yet
at circa 1:64. It’s pretty damn slow, too. It takes about a day and a half to compress 4Gb of data om my 1GHz Celleron with 256Mb RAM. It yields
quite
a small file, tho (if I remember correctly, about 800Mb).
If anyone digs somehting up on this topic, let us all know.

Branko Vukelic ()

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Easy-to-use drag-n-drop Photoshop scene creator with more than 2800 items.

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