Seadragon and Photosynth - jaw-dropping stuff
September 7th, 2007 at 10:33am |
I got sent this link (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129) by a colleague, and after I picked my jaw up from the floor, thought I had better share it.
I first heard about fractal coding a few years back, but the theory has been around for over 15 years. Without getting into the complexities, fractal coding offers levels of file compression far beyond your average Zip program, which makes it ideally suited to compressing massive images and making them usable - kind of like the digital version of microfiche. The sticking point has always been that you need very powerful processors to decompress the files in real-time, but with modern dual core processors this is ceasing to become an issue.
Watch the video above - you will be amazed.
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