Here is a belated post of an expository article from earlier this year that I have been meaning to point. This article, which gives the mathematical basics behind JPEG, is part of the "What is..." series in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
There are a few more of these that have built up about which I will eventually blog, and I'll even zip through my media review backlog at some point. :)
DCT FTW! Somebody got their Gibb's in my JPEGs...
ReplyDeleteHrm, too sleepy to make coherent math joke. Nevermind!
ReplyDeleteI actually used the 'somebody got your chocolate in my peanut butter' joke at the workshop. "Somebody got your heater network in my water exchange network!" Sadly, none of the others in my group had ever seen those commercials before. Philistines!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sleep myself. I have a couple of hours of nodding off during travel since yesterday at some point. Blech. I feel like crap.