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To: paul goldstein who wrote (7418)	2/19/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Frank A. Adessa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19109

Paul, nobody has rights to fractals. Fractals have been around for hundreds of years, but nobody knew what they where. Until one day a guy by the name of Mandelbrot who worked for IBM, decided to throw them up on a computer screen. The reason this had not been done before was because computers just were not fast enough. Now, a little more about fractals. They are infinite. Which means that any sequence of colors and patterns is in every fractal. The problem is As you dig deeper into a fractal the number of digits past the decimal point gets very large. And thus slows down a computer. If I am correct, the idea behind fractal compression, would be to search through a fractal and find those patterns and colors that match most closely to the original picture. And since this can be represented by as few as four numbers, it becomes a source of compression... I think TMM has rights to one or more algorithms behind all of that. BTW My knowledge in this is rusty and I could be wrong in a lot of it... Frank