Introduction:

  This program has been written, as a student work, for the 1995 course 
in microelectronics; it encodes a true-color image into a fractal code. 
  
  We consider our work as a good "tutorial" to introduce people to the 
fractal image compression topic. Since it runs under Windows and shows, 
during encoding, both range block and the domain block which will be mapped 
on the range; it shows, also, an icon representing the isometry beeing 
currently applied.

  This program is an alpha version, and comes with a help file, written
in Italian.


How to use:
  This program MUST be placed in C:\IFS
  Load a true-color BMP image (with dimensions multiple of 8), using
    File, Open
  Encode it using Image, Encode. The program will save the compressed
    image (IFS extension using a progressive number).
  Load another image with the same dimensions, and decode from the previous
    saved IFS file: Image, Decode from file.
  Use the long menus at your own risk.


For a good introduction on the topic of Fractal Image Coding see
  http://inls.ucsd.edu/y/Fractals


This program is freeware, and has only educational purpose.


Contact us at:
  Giovambattista Pulcini - mc0878@mclink.it
  Valerio Verrando - v.verrando@mclink.it - http://www.webcom.com/~verrando

