Wikipedia: History of Run-length encoding

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RLE performs lossless data compression and is well suited to palette?-based iconic images.
RLE does not work well at all on continuous-tone images such as photographs, although JPEG uses RLE quite effectively on the coefficients that remain after transforming and quantizing image blocks.

Run-length encoding performs lossless data compression and is well suited to palette?-based iconic images. It does not work well at all on continuous-tone images such as photographs, although JPEG uses it quite effectively on the coefficients that remain after transforming and quantizing image blocks.

	Revision 3 . . (edit) December 14, 2001 4:04 am by AxelBoldt [No need for abbreviation.]
	Revision 2 . . December 14, 2001 3:01 am by Lee Daniel Crocker
	Revision 1 . . December 14, 2001 3:01 am by Lee Daniel Crocker [RLE has nothing to do with graphics, tough that's a useful example.]