Thumb-Fractal Image Decoding
1 Initial Image = exploded thumb of Lena
2 First Iteration
3 Second Iteration
This animation demonstrates the rapid convergence of thumb-fractal encoding,
a style of fractal encoding developed by the author.
For this codec, the first stage is the "exploded" image thumbnail.
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Harvey A. Cohen, Thumbnail-based Image Coding Utilising the Fractal Transform,
Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf Image Processing ICIP'96, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept 16-19, 1996. Vol 1, pp 105-148.
This papers is listed as Paper 96:5
at the author's
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See also the Image Thumbnail Primer 
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