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This took me way down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. Makes me think that fractals are a nature information compression technique.
by Yhippa 11y ago
This took me way down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. Makes me think that fractals are a nature information compression technique.
- kjs3 11y agoYou aren't the only one who thought that. Dr. Michael Barnsley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barnsley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barnsley) was an early fractal researcher and started a company called "Iterated Systems" to commercialize the use of fractal compress tech. They were somewhat successful, but I think they were a bit before their time as finding the IFS to "compress" an image was computationally extremely heavyweight and the tech had to catch up with the theory. Disclaimer: I worked in Dr. Barnsley's lab at Georgia Tech in the mid-80s but was never involved with Iterated Systems.