Fractal based Image compression algorithm (and source code)

Question

I am looking for a decent fractal based compression algorithm for images. So far I only find dead links to the FIF image format and dead links pointing to Iterated Systems Inc which then became MediaBin which then became nothing from what I can see.

Answer 1

The source files in ANSI C (enc.c and dec.c) for PIFS (i.e. partition iterated function system) are available on the website of Fractal Image Compression: Theory and Application to Digital Images book.

Answer 2

I think you should take a look at the Fiasco library. You can find an old article about it on Linux Journal.

Answer 3

The "nanocrunch.cpp" source code, implementing, yet another variant on fractal image compression, was developed by "Boojum", and is the top answer to another Stack Overflow question: Twitter image encoding challenge .