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0 pointsandrewzah6y ago0 comments

Made by the same folks who brought you JPEG 2000. /s

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I was a fan/proponent of that! Whatever happened to wavelet compression?

loeg6y ago

Patents.

ksec6y ago

Most of them had expired. Wavelet is something that looks good in theory but in practice couldn't beat the millions man hours work put into standard DCT.

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