There is an encoding/decoding stage that is basically compression/decompression. Thats less of a good analogy for happens in the middle. I am no expert here, b

There is an encoding/decoding stage that is basically compression/decompression. Thats less of a good analogy for happens in the middle. I am no expert here, but I think of it as water running through a giant network of specifically patterned canyons.