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How Stuff Works: How File Compression Works
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Detailed narrative fully describes how a file is actually deflated, or compressed to get rid of redundancy - and save space.
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The LBE Data Compression Algorithm
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A Huffman like algorithm that uses triangular matrices, rather than binary trees, for string substitution. Free source code available.
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Dr Ross's Compression Crypt
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LZRW* text compression algorithms. Links to other compression sites.
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Arturo Campos: Compression Programming
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Articles on various compression algorithms.
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Data-Compression.com
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A website devoted to the principles and practice of data compression.
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Sparse Matrix Compression Schemes
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Pseudocode for a spare matrix compression algorithm.
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The Canterbury Corpus
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A set of benchmark results for various lossless compression methods. Includes test files and compression test results for many research compression methods.
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Practical Huffman Coding
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A tutorial by Michael Schindler.
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ACM Crossroads Data Compression Issue
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Data Compression issue of ACM Crossroads, the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Tutorial on Image Compression
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A tutorial on Image Compression, with step by step procedural examples and list of references, along with sample code.
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PKZIP Application Note
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Describes the compression and decompression algorithms used by PKZIP.
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Groovyweb Compression Tutorials
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Compression tutorials, links to other compression sites and compression downloads.
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Vcodex
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Video and image coding tutorials, links, resources and research.
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DataCompression.info
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Directory of data compression sites. Allows user to rate the listed sites.
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The Data Compression Resource
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Algorithms, links, comparisons, conferences, corpora and the home of the compressor ABC.
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The Art of Lossless Data Compression
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Results of tests performed to compare lossless compression of various data by all known good enough programs. Descriptions of test terms and files. Links to related programs, and pages.
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3D Graphics Compression Homepage
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A directory of 3D graphics compression information, researchers, and commercial products on the web.
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SPIHT
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The Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees algorithm for image and video compression. Documentation and resources.
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Data Compression Reference Center
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Basic facts, algorithms, hardware, links, and a glossary.
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Compression via Arithmetic Coding in Java
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Unrestricted open-source Java implementation of the PPM (prediction by partial matching) algorithm for text and data compression by Bob Carpenter. Builds with ant.
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Lossless Image Compression with Switched Linear Prediction
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By Shinji Wakasugi. A simple method for lossless image compression using switched linear prediction. Report in PDF with code in C.
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MacKiDo
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Provides brief overview of shape compression, run-length encoding, and Lempel-Ziv.
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Data Compression
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From PC Webopedia definition and links.
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Complementary Positional Encoding
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A lossless text compression algorithm. Description and C++ implementation.
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Compression - Computing Reference
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Explanation of compression and various compression schemes at eLook Computing Reference.
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Williams, Ross N.
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Variations on Lempen Ziv coding.
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