Thursday, September 25, 2008

Week 5 Muddiest Point

The one thing I was kind of confused about was how/why compression was developed for fax transmission and what type of compression it uses even now.

2 comments:

Daqing said...

because faxing was the earliest application that people find that it is necessary compression and there are technology developed for it. the Huffman code is one example of compression methods used in fax

Monica said...

Thanks for the comment - I'll find something to read up on the Huffman code.