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From: google@inio.org (Ian Rickard)
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Subject: Re: [DIS] A little history question
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"Joaquim G ndara" <claw@lords.com> wrote in message news:<b18kmv$1003f9$1@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de>...
> Why are you talking about compression, when Ian is asking about image to
> ASCII conversion (or technically image to tiled images conversion)? Does
> the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm as used in GIF compression somehow
> represent the image using different tiles?
> 
> You seem to be off on a tangent. The GIF format uses LZW compression, but
> GIF isn't the central idea here; Ian seems to be looking for something along
> the lines of conversion from a high-resolution image to a "mosaic image"
> made up of several different images. I'm sure a program converting BMP
> files to ASCII art would also serve as prior art against the patent
> mentioned by Ian.

I couldn't have said it better myself :).