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Chapter 10: Processes of Perception and Analysis

Section 6: Irreversible Data Compression


JPEG compression

In common use since the early 1990s JPEG compression works by first assigning color values to definite bins, then applying a discrete Fourier cosine transform, then applying Huffman encoding to the resulting weights. The "quality" of the image is determined by how many weights are kept; a typical default quality factor, used say by Export in Mathematica, is 75.



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From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]