Short: Fractal image compression tool (PPC port) Author: various, MagicSN@Birdland.es.bawue.de Uploader: MagicSN Birdland es bawue de Type: gfx/conv Replaces: gfx/conv/PPCLimboWOS.lha Architecture: ppc-warpup limbo - fast 2D/3D fractal image compression Note: My first upload had a buggy exeutable, but as i reuploaded about an our later, the buggy one should not have appeared anywhere. Also note: The PPMPrev Executable (where i don't have the Source) needs LOT of stack or it crashes your machine. To be on the sure side i always use 300000. Limbo is a very fast fractal image object encoder. It encodes an input image by approximating it with a set of affine contractive mappings - the fractal code. The current version can briefly be summarized with these features: Current features: o Complete very fast encoding of images or sequences of images. o Full storing, retrieving and decoding of the fractal code in a general interchange format. o A special n-dimensional feature space search technique to reduce the encoding time. o Quadtree encoding using n-levels. o Decode expansion at any level (i.e. 2, 4, 8...times original size). Image input and output is in the PPM (color) or PGM (grey level) format. The output from the encoder is in a special 'limbo' fractal format (*.lmb). BTW: There will soon be a GFX Viewer able to show PPM Images called "WarpView" released by me (supporting PPC).