S. Apiki. Compressing with fractals. BYTE Magazine, 1993.
With POEM ColorBox 1.0, fractal compression makes ist biggest leap yet from academia into the grimy world of Windowa applications development. The timing could hardly have been better. As more Windows applications sprout image-handling capabilities and as true-color (i.e., 24-bit) Windows hardware becomes more common, developers and users alike clamor for high-powered, high-quality image compression. POEM ColorBox Compression SDK (Software Developer's Kit) is a set of Windows DLLs from Iterated Systems that lets developers add fractal compression to applications with relative ease (see the screen). ColorBox isn't the first compression product from Iterated Systems, but it's the first one aimed at mainstream commercial Windows developers. At $499, ColorBox is hardly exotic fare; it's well within the reach of any Windows developer working with images. ColorBox delivers impressive compression ratios and excellent image quality. But using ColorBox as opposed to image-compression alternatives (e.g., JPEG libraries) means forgoing compression speed, image-interchange capability, and widespread licensing in favor of the benefits of fractal compression.
@article{Apiki93,
Author = {Apiki, S.},
Title = {Compressing with fractals},
Journal = {BYTE Magazine},
Month = {},
Year = {1993}
}
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