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Breakthrough In JPEG Compression

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 11, 2005 @09:27PM from the like-free-flash-memory dept.

Kris_J writes "The makers of the (classic) compression package Stuffit have written a program that can compress JPGs by roughly 30%. This isn't the raw image to JPG compression, this is lossless compression applied to the JPG file. Typical compression rates for JPGs are 2% to -1%. If you read the whitepaper (PDF), they are even proposing a new image format; StuffIt Image Format (SIF). Now I just need someone to write a SIF compressor for my old Kodak DC260."

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Re:Fractal image format by ID10T5 · 2005-01-11 22:12 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm not sure how practical 100% reduction is, but if anyone is interested I have an extremely fast algorithm for doing it.
The results can be seen by the /. logo I have reduced here: