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/
Advanced Hardware Architectures
Home page for Advanced Hardware Architectures.
AHA makes a few different chips that implement various forms of lossless data compression.
Fractals Everywhere
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
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0120790610/theinternetdatac
Data and Image Compression: Tools and Techniques, 4E
by Gilbert Held, Thomas R. Marshall. <
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Fractal Image Compression
by Michael F. Barnsley, Lyman P. Hurd, Louisa F. Anson (Illustrator).
A sequel to Barnsley’s first book.
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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
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
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
Gzip specification in PS format
The gzip technical specification in US size PostScript, by L. Peter Deutsch.
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc1952.ps
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
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
What is an archiver?
Answer to this question from the comp.compression FAQ.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-4.html
Which books should I read?
An answer to this question from the comp.compression FAQ.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-6.html
Zlib technical details
Some information regarding technical requirements of the zlib package
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_tech.html
Compression of Random Data
The comp.compression FAQ addresses this topic, reluctantly.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-8.html
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
Portable Network Graphics - 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/
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
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
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
Miscellaneous Applications with PNG Support
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
Applications with PNG Support
What is JPEG?
The comp.compression FAQ attempts to answer this question.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-17.html
Toolkits and Programming Libraries with PNG Support
Toolkits and Programming Libraries with PNG Support
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngaptk.html
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
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
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
Are there algorithms and standards for audio compression?
The comp.compression FAQ answers this question.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-20.html