FRACTAL COMPRESSION
Charles François (2004). FRACTAL COMPRESSION, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1324.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1324 ▶ |
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The use of fractals to reduce the volume of information that must be treated.
Fractals can be used in this manner because they are self-referential : recurring patterns appear at different scales . Thus, when information is distributed at different levels , as for example in images in video recording systems, the recurring pattern must be stored only once i.e. not repeated in a redundant way- and called for use only when necessary at some scale or other. (Economist, Apr. 13, 1996, p. 91)
See also
Algorithms (Genetic), Self similarity, Morphogenetic fields, Randomness (constrained), Search (Random)