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6 PDL::Compression - compression utilities
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9 These routines generally accept some data as a PDL and compress it into
10 a smaller PDL. Algorithms typically work on a single dimension and
11 thread over other dimensions, producing a threaded table of compressed
12 values if more than one dimension is fed in.
13 The Rice algorithm, in particular, is designed to be identical to the
15 RICE_1 algorithm used in internal FITS-file compression (see
16 PDL::IO::FITS).
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19 use PDL::Compression
20 ($b,$asize) = $a->rice_compress();
22 $c = $b->rice_expand($asize);
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26 rice_compress
27 Signature: (in(n); [o]out(m); int[o]len(); lbuf(n); int blocksize)
28 Squishes an input PDL along the 0 dimension by Rice compression. In
30 scalar context, you get back only the compressed PDL; in list context,
31 you also get back ancillary information that is required to uncompress
32 the data with rice_uncompress.
33 Multidimensional data are threaded over - each row is compressed
35 separately, and the returned PDL is squished to the maximum compressed
36 size of any row. If any of the streams could not be compressed (the
37 algorithm produced longer output), the corresponding length is set to
38 -1 and the row is treated as if it had length 0.
39 Rice compression only works on integer data types -- if you have
41 floating point data you must first quantize them.
42 The underlying algorithm is identical to the Rice compressor used in
44 CFITSIO (and is used by PDL::IO::FITS to load and save compressed FITS
45 images).
46 The optional blocksize indicates how many samples are to be compressed
48 as a unit; it defaults to 32.
49 How it works:
51 Rice compression is a subset of Golomb compression, and works on data
53 sets where variation between adjacent samples is typically small
54 compared to the dynamic range of each sample. In this implementation
55 (originally written by Richard White and contributed to CFITSIO in
56 1999), the data are divided into blocks of samples (by default 32
57 samples per block). Each block has a running difference applied, and
58 the difference is bit-folded to make it positive definite. High order
59 bits of the difference stream are discarded, and replaced with a unary
60 representation; low order bits are preserved. Unary representation is
61 very efficient for small numbers, but large jumps could give rise to
62 ludicrously large bins in a plain Golomb code; such large jumps ("high
63 entropy" samples) are simply recorded directly in the output stream.
64 Working on astronomical or solar image data, typical compression ratios
66 of 2-3 are achieved.
67 $out = $pdl->rice_compress($blocksize);
69 ($out, $len, $blocksize, $dim0) = $pdl->rice_compress;
70 $new = $out->rice_expand;
72 rice_compress ignores the bad-value flag of the input piddles. It will
74 set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any
75 of the input piddles.
76 rice_expand
78 Signature: (in(n); [o]out(m); lbuf(n); int blocksize)
79 Unsquishes a PDL that has been squished by rice_expand.
81 ($out, $len, $blocksize, $dim0) = $pdl->rice_compress;
83 $copy = $out->rice_expand($dim0, $blocksize);
84 rice_expand ignores the bad-value flag of the input piddles. It will
86 set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any
87 of the input piddles.
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90 Copyright (C) 2010 Craig DeForest. All rights reserved. There is no
91 warranty. You are allowed to redistribute this software / documentation
92 under certain conditions. For details, see the file COPYING in the PDL
93 distribution. If this file is separated from the PDL distribution, the
94 copyright notice should be included in the file.
95 The Rice compression library is derived from the similar library in the
97 CFITSIO 3.24 release, and is licensed under yet more more lenient terms
98 than PDL itself; that notice is present in the file "ricecomp.c".
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101 · Currently headers are ignored.
102 · Currently there is only one compression algorithm.
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106 · Add object encapsulation
107 · Add test suite
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