Data-Compression.org

data compression link collection

Published in Mirror Site

Technical reports on the wustl.edu server. Lots of stuff here, but it’s going to take a few hours to go through and find the pertinent stuff.

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/techreports/

         

Posted in November 14th, 1999

Advanced Hardware Architectures

Home page for Advanced Hardware Architectures.
AHA makes a few different chips that implement various forms of lossless data compression.

http://www.aha.com/

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Fractals Everywhere

Published in Books, Fractals

by Michael F. Barnsley. A revised and updated textbook focusing on how fractal geometry can be used to model real objects in the physical world. DCL reader TJ says This is, in my experience, the best mathematics book I have ever seen

If you are interested in buying this book, please use the link on this page. Your purchase will help to support this site.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0120790610/theinternetdatac

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Data and Image Compression: Tools and Techniques, 4E

Published in Books, Data Compression

by Gilbert Held, Thomas R. Marshall. <
If you are interested in buying this book, please use the link on this page. Your purchase will help to support this site.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471952478/theinternetdatac

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Fractal Image Compression

Published in Books, Fractals

by Michael F. Barnsley, Lyman P. Hurd, Louisa F. Anson (Illustrator).
A sequel to Barnsley’s first book.

If you are interested in buying this book, please use the link on this page. Your purchase will help to support this site.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568810008/theinternetdatac

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Dictionary Coders

This page has links to the source code for a family of compressors written by Charles Bloom. This includes the LZP family, an LZW example, LZRW, and LZCB.

http://www.cbloom.com/src/index_lz.html

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Info-ZIP Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The FAQ for the Info-ZIP project.

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/FAQ.html

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Deflate technical spec in ASCII format

The deflate technical specification in ASCII, by L. Peter Deutsch. This document is the basis for RFC 1951.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc1951.txt

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Gzip specification in PS format

The gzip technical specification in US size PostScript, by L. Peter Deutsch.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc1952.ps

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Gzip specification in ASCII format

The gzip technical specification in ASCII, by L. Peter Deutsch. This document is the basis for RFC 1952.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc1952.txt

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Published in Mirror Site

The gzip technical specification in A4 size PostScript, by L. Peter Deutsch. This document is the basis for RFC 1952. There are many links to this document stored in various places, but this database will only have links to the versions at www.cdrom.com and the IETF pages.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc1952-a4.ps

         

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What is an archiver?

Answer to this question from the comp.compression FAQ.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-4.html

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Which books should I read?

Published in Books, Data Compression

An answer to this question from the comp.compression FAQ.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-6.html

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Zlib technical details

Some information regarding technical requirements of the zlib package

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_tech.html

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Zlib source in tarball format

Published in Source Code, zlib

The source code for zlib

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib.tar.gz

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Compression of Random Data

The comp.compression FAQ addresses this topic, reluctantly.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-8.html

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Fake Compression Programs

Sadly, people will sometimes attempt to dupe the public. The FAQ chronicles some of these attempts.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-9.html

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Portable Network Graphics - PNG

Published in Links, PNG

The PNG project home page. If you want source code, information, or links relating to the PNG compressed image format, this is the place.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

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What is the V.42bis standard?

The comp.compression FAQ tells you a little bit about this modem standard.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-10.html

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Where can I get image compression programs?

The comp.compression FAQ attempts to answer this question.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-13.html

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What is the state of the art in lossless image compression?

The comp.compression FAQ attempts to answer this question.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-14.html

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Miscellaneous Applications with PNG Support

Published in Links, PNG

Miscellaneous apps with PNG support

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapmi.html

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What is the state of fractal compression?

The comp.compression FAQ addresses this somewhat controversial question.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-15.html

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Applications with PNG Support

Just what it says.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapps.html

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What is JPEG?

Published in Newsgroup Posts, JPEG

The comp.compression FAQ attempts to answer this question.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-17.html

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Toolkits and Programming Libraries with PNG Support

Toolkits and Programming Libraries with PNG Support

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngaptk.html

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I am looking for source of an H.261/H.263 codec and MPEG

The comp.compressoin FAQ answers this query.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-18.html

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Tell me about Fast DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) algorithms

The comp.compression FAQ attempts to do just that.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-19.html

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PNG Source Code and Libraries

The source for libpng and zlib. Can’t do PNG without them.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngcode.html

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Are there algorithms and standards for audio compression?

Published in Newsgroup Posts, Audio

The comp.compression FAQ answers this question.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-20.html

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