IFSAF dlg lite for NT and 95

Overview

IFSAF dialog lite is a reduction of the IFSAF full package. Besides it is a true 32 bit application optimized for the Pentium dual pipeline. It is not graphical as the full IFSAF was, but consist in a dialog box. So, you need an image viewer to see the results.

It implements only the true-color joint encoding. Some feature are not yet available, as you can see on the Hardware/Software requirements page. The application is much faster and more stable than the original IFSAF, and the source code is more readable. The user-interface is more friendly and follows the Windows guidelines, the program makes some more controls on user actions, leading to an easier use.

It is important to understand that the IFSAF was not intended for final-users, neither for developers that would include FIC capabilities in their products. It was intended for use in the research and educational areas. So no FIC library is directly derivable from IFSAF source code.
Besides, it can be a good starting point for building such a library, some effort is required, anyway, to make the encoder accept all the image sizes. Also, in true applications, the fractal coefficients should be compressed in a no-lossy way, through a maximun entropy algorithm such as huffman or arithmetic encoding, since their frequency distributions are not uniform.

See Also:

  • Fractal Image Compression Software.
  • IFASF dlg lite Overview.
  • How to use IFSAF dlg lite - a tutorial.
  • Hardware/Software requirements for IFSAF dlg lite.
  • The IFSAF underlying theory.
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