If you extend 2d encoding to 3d you can get nice video compression scheme: http://people.f4.htw-berlin.de/~barthel/paper/BaVo95.pdf http://people.f4.htw-berlin.

If you extend 2d encoding to 3d you can get nice video compression scheme: http://people.f4.htw-berlin.de/~barthel/paper/BaVo95.pdf http://people.f4.htw-berlin.de/~barthel/paper/BaVo95.pdf I believe it is almost the only interesting application.