FRACTAL COMPRESSION
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The use of fractals to reduce the volume of information that must be treated.
Fractals can be used in this manner because they are self-referential: recurring patterns appear at different scales. Thus, when information is distributed at different levels, as for example in images in video recording systems, the recurring pattern must be stored only once i.e. not repeated in a redundant way- and called for use only when necessary at some scale or other. (Economist, Apr. 13, 1996, p. 91)
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