I''d like to learn the basic''s of a simple compression-decompression algorithm. Anyone know a really basic tutorial that perhaps steps through the code explaining whats happening. I have not been the uni so have no knowledge about information theory. Ideally I''d like to work myself up to a point where I could implement a huffman based algorithm... then code it in _asm Any suggestions? Thanks Chris

quote: Original post by gimp

Anyone know a really basic tutorial that perhaps steps through the code explaining whats happening.

Sorry, i don''t. But you could certainly find one on the internet. Just type "compression tutorial" on your best research engine.

You can also find good books about it in any good library.

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I have not been the uni so have no knowledge about information theory. Ideally I''d like to work myself up to a point where I could implement a huffman based algorithm... then code it in _asm

If you know who huffman is, you''re not a total beginner. However, ASM may not be very convenient for writing such an algorithm (since you must use binary tree).

You should perhaps try to code it in C++ and then in ASM. (I don''t think it will be really faster)

Good luck!




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Click Reference/Programming in the main page. Then go to sections and click in programming/general (not game programming). You''ll see articles about compression.

Luck!