Towards the use of real time picture compression in computer graphics

Lossless data compression is already widely used in image storage. The advent of the JPEG compression standard and its implementation in VLSI hardware offer significant benefits to the computer graphics community. The JPEG standard´s lossy compression allows a 30:1 data reduction with minimal image degradation. Benefits include: economy of storage for both rendered and grabbed images; the ability to obtain good quality motion video pictures on modest computer equipment; progress towards a standard for the storage of continuous tone images, in place of a plethora of incompatible file formats; and the opportunity to create a wider user base for computer graphics techniques