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New compression technique
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Whatever happened to fractal image compression, which compressed an image by finding parts similar to larger regions of the picture, so that is could reconstruct the image from itself.
It only works if the image is actually fractal-like. Real world is a bitch
Sometimes the world is a Mandel Bro and sometimes it isn't.
Were in a fractal just too zoomed in to notice
Actually, a simulation of a fractal