Sunday, September 26, 2010

lossy compression

Here's an example of lossy compression as Manovich describes it. Kinda scary.

4 comments:

  1. Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!

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  2. As the video gets closer and closer to 1000, I'm struck more and more by how similar this sounds to a large number of representations of aliens in film and on television.

    And now I'm struck by how weird it is that we've decided things are IN film, but ON television. As the quality of TV increases, I wonder if this will change?

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