But is only to use for testing issues. It only supports a proprietary export format. Nice thing when you just want to check out, what fractal compression does or is capable of. This page offers a program called the IFS Application Framework, a freeware program that does fractal image coding, along with some docs. We keep a store of papers originating from Waterloo Montreal External sources.
All papers are in postscript format and are gzipped to save space.
The filenames correspond to the naming convention established in my extensive Fractal Bibliography. Freiburg Fractal Image Compression ftp site Rate Contains papers, software and a regularly updated bibliography on fractal image compression. The selection of papers is huge, but all are in PS format, so I have not been able to go through and provide indexing. Interested readers are invited to add pointers to papers judged useful. The key to a good fractal compression algorithm is the method by which it breaks down segments of an image into smaller pieces, called partitioning.