3.3 Compression

Cf.

• www.ztt.fh-worms.de/.../index.html Lecture Notes (in German).
• www.cs.sfu.ca/.../index.html Nice short description and Java applets.
• www.faqs.org/.../index.html Compression FAQ.
• almond.srv.cs.cmu.edu/.../compression.pdf Paul Heckbert's Computer Graphic Lecture Notes.

In order to use less disk space and bandwidth during transmission we have to compress the image using some packing algorithm.