Elysium says that this product is the first publicly released JPEG 2000 plugin for the Windows platform. It works with Netscape, Opera, and IE browsers, and is free.

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A lossless codec developed in Russia originally for radio telescope data. Apparently that specialized codec turned out to be good on audio data as well. Distributed under a free license.

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In this paper we present a method that uses Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to find a Local Iterated Function System (LIFS) that encodes a single image. By doing this, the time needed to achieve this LIFS is reduced by about compared with Barnsley’s method if similar image quality is desired. If less quality is acceptable, […]

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Some sample code and a tutorial explaining how to use the InfoZip DLLs with VB.

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