> From: David VanHorn [mailto:dvanhorn@CEDAR.NET]
>
> I have a line of bits, 104 bytes wide.
> It might contain anything between
> 000.......000 to 010101.....0101 to 11111.....11111
>
> I had thought of a simple RLE encoding, where
> 1XXXXXXX means X+1 pixels of black, and 0XXXXXXX means X+1
> pixels of white,
> but in the case of 010101 sorts of data, it fails rather
> badly at compression!
>
> I also thought about compressing the data, and if the
> "compressed" version
> was longer than the uncompressed, to abort and send raw.
>
> However, it seems to me that there has to be something out
> there that's
> simple to work with, yet works better than my little
> hare-brained scheme.
>
> What say the group?

Are any sequences of bits more common than others, or is there an even
distribution of values.  If all values are equally as common, there's not a lot
that you can do.

-Mike

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