[mistercow]

It's been a while sense I read about fractal image compression, but way back when, I read quite a bit about it. The impression I got about the algorithms I read about was that a) the term "fractal" seemed like a bit of a stretch, and b) they were a neat hack for building and exploiting a statistical model of an image, but the promises that were getting thrown around were pretty overblown. My guess is that these techniques would be blown out of the water by modern CNN-based methods.