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		banana_maker on Feb 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format Made by the same folks who brought you JPEG 2000. /s

pmarreck on Feb 7, 2020 [–]

I was a fan/proponent of that! Whatever happened to wavelet compression?

loeg on Feb 7, 2020 | [–]

Patents.

ksec on Feb 7, 2020 | | [–]

Most of them had expired. Wavelet is something that looks good in theory but in practice couldn't beat the millions man hours work put into standard DCT.

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