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So what is a Buddhabrot anyway?
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Trying to put interesting pictures on my walls, I recently started experimenting with rendering Buddhabrots. While those witnessing my experiments uttered some “wows” and “beautifuls” (and some “uhm aha?”) nobody seemed to know exactly what those pictures actually show and so I decided to write this article to point people to instead of explaining it all over again 🙂
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Syburg, Ruhr, Hardenstein, Kemnader See
Schnell noch den regenfreien Vormittag genutzt…
Introduction to Data Compression – Huffman Coding
Despite unprecedented storage capacity and Internet bandwidth available to everyone the amount of information growing daily as well means data compression is a must. Without it mobile music players would only be able to store a tenth of the songs they do, the same factor of about ten goes for digital cameras and HD television would be mostly impossible at all.
I hope to be able to describe how data compression actually works. However, the topic is somewhat complex, especially when coming to audio, image and video compression. While those topics will be discussed in articles (hopefully) to come I want to start with one of the most simple methods to compress data: Huffman coding.
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