We, at the ENSERB, have designed the most powerful image compress utility in the whole world, using the BROL method : if we take a 1024x1024, 16 million colors, picture of a mandrill, and give it to our program "brol", we get a resulting picture of *** 1 BYTE ***. And if we use "unbrol" to unpack this resulting file, we get back the original 1024x1024, 16 million colors, picture of the mandrill, with *** NO LOSS OF QUALITY ***. Unfortunately, if we brol the picture of a teapot and unbrol the resulting file, we still get the 1024x1024, 16 million colors, picture of a mandrill.
Nevertheless, this small bug will not stop us from improving our method, and we have great hope to shrink the size of the brolled file to 0 byte... Needless to say, we will keep you informed of the next discoveries of our researchers in the field of the brol theory...
In article <1...@geocub.greco-prog.fr> Peleg...@Goofi.UUCP (Uncle Ben's) writes: > We, at the ENSERB, have designed the most powerful image compress utility >in the whole world, using the BROL method : if we take a 1024x1024, 16 >million colors, picture of a mandrill, and give it to our program "brol", >we get a resulting picture of *** 1 BYTE ***. >And if we use "unbrol" to unpack this resulting file, we get back the >original 1024x1024, 16 million colors, picture of the mandrill, with *** NO >LOSS OF QUALITY ***. > Unfortunately, if we brol the picture of a teapot and unbrol the resulting >file, we still get the 1024x1024, 16 million colors, picture of a mandrill.
I've heard of such programs before. Most of them are about 3 Mega-Bytes long, aren't they?
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In article <1...@laura.UUCP> h...@trillian.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Hasko Heinecke) writes: >In article <1...@geocub.greco-prog.fr> Peleg...@Goofi.UUCP (Uncle Ben's) writes: >> We, at the ENSERB, have designed the most powerful image compress utility >>in the whole world, using the BROL method : if we take a 1024x1024, 16 >>million colors, picture of a mandrill, and give it to our program "brol", >>we get a resulting picture of *** 1 BYTE ***. >>And if we use "unbrol" to unpack this resulting file, we get back the >>original 1024x1024, 16 million colors, picture of the mandrill, with *** NO >>LOSS OF QUALITY ***. >> Unfortunately, if we brol the picture of a teapot and unbrol the resulting >>file, we still get the 1024x1024, 16 million colors, picture of a mandrill.
>I've heard of such programs before. Most of them are about 3 Mega-Bytes >long, aren't they?
They used to. Now, with our new improved BROL method, the unbrolling code is about 6 megabytes long, and we can unbrol both teapots and mandrills, with a brolled picture size of ****1 BIT**** !!!
Inspired by "The BROL theory research group" I've invented an advanced BROL program which is rather small (a few dozen lines) which compresses any image (including mandrills and teapots), into a 1 byte file.
Decompression yields the original picture.
I think my compression scheme is by all means the most advanced ones in the world. It runs circles around things like Huffman coding and Lempel-Ziv.
I might consider sharing the source with you provided that you can proof to me that your system meets the requirements of my program.
Almost all unix system which supports a file name length and sh argument size of 3 MB or more will meet the requirements.
I suppose that this qualifies for an ACM Turing Award.
Research continues for a compression algorithm which will allow compaction into 0 byte files, thus yielding infinite compression.
Frans Meulenbroeks (meule...@cst.prl.philips.nl) Centre for Software Technology ( or try: ...!mcvax!phigate!prle!cst!meulenbr)
In article <8...@prles2.UUCP> meule...@cst.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) writes: >Inspired by "The BROL theory research group" I've invented an advanced >BROL program which is rather small (a few dozen lines) which compresses >any image (including mandrills and teapots), into a 1 byte file. > [...broloid stuff deleted...] >Almost all unix system which supports a file name length and sh argument >size of 3 MB or more will meet the requirements. > [...more broloid stuff deleted...]
Congratulations Frans ! The BROL research team manager, impressed by your new discovery, is planning to hire you soon... We will surely meet at ACM Siggraph. By the way, I *DO* hope you have file completion...
