Coding - Compression
7.9. Further reading
- "The Data Compression Book" by Mark Nelson and Jean-Loup Gailly is a good overview of this topic
- A list of books on this topic (and lots of other information about compression) is available from The Data Compression Site.
- Gleick's book "The Information" has some background to compression, and coding in general.
- Images, run-length-coding http://csunplugged.org/image-representation This is also relevant to binary representations in general, although is probably best used in the compression section.
- There is a detailed section on JPEG encoding on Wikipedia.
- Text compression http://csunplugged.org/text-compression
- One pixel is worth three thousand words by Jon Sneyers from cloudinary.com
