User:Tharim/minor mindofthemachine
How to compress life?
PEOPLE
Alkenah Wansing Major: Graphic Design
Suzanne Guitjens Major: Fashion
Tharim Cornelisse Major: Illustration
DEVELOPMENT
WEEK 1
Early on ln the project we picked the subject of compression to work around.
We looked into a few different kinds of compression, the history of compression and the relationship between compression and our project.
When computers, personal computers in particular, were upcoming compression was very needed. Data wasn’t usable because files were to big and computers to “slow”. Files needed to be smaller for the computer, but had to remain the same quality for humans. For example audio files had to be smaller, but still had to sound good. Images had to exist of less data, but still had to look good. Algorithms were created to do exactly this.
QUADTREE ENCODING
Quadtree encoding is a compression method which is used in JPEG compression and is based around a fairly simple concept in which the computer doesn't need to save the information for all the pixels in a image. It keeps dividing the picture into sections which have more or less the same color.
