A "Hitchhiker's Guide to Fractal Compression" For Beginners

If you are new to this area, you might wish to read the "Hitchhiker's Guide" which was written by E.R. Vrscay for the Faculty of Mathematics Alumni journal, "Math Ties". This paper may be downloaded by anonymous ftp from 
 links.uwaterloo.ca
The paper is to be found in the directory 
/pub/Fractals/Papers/Waterloo/
 in the files

vr95.ps.gz.

vr95.pdf.

and Here are a couple general articles written by Michael Barnsley, the world's leading proponent of fractal image compression.

  1. "A Better Way to Compress Images," M.F. Barnsley and A.D. Sloan, BYTE, pp. 215-223, January 1988.
  2. "Fractal Image Compression," M.F. Barnsley, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, pp. 657-662, June 1996.
Here is a long non-mathematical introductory article.
  1. J. Kominek, "Advances in Fractal Image Compression for Multimedia Applications," to appear in MultiMedia Systems Journal.
These are three books on fractal image compression (more advanced references):
  1. M.F. Barnsley, "Fractals Everywhere," Academic Press, 1988.
  2. M.F. Barnsley, L. Hurd, "Fractal Image Compression,", A.K. Peters, 1993.
  3. Y. Fisher (editor), "Fractal Image Compression," Springer-Verlag, 1995.
Finally, an extensive bibliography.