Talk:3D Fax

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"anything over 50Kb would require"

I have changed this to:

"anything over 50 kb would require"

As the k should definately have been lowercase (and possibly ki) - however should the b really be lowercase, or was "bytes" intended? 50 kb seems too small for even this technology.

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The program was available in 16bit for Windows 3.1x, 32bit for Windows 9x or later, and for Macintosh.

There were two programs, a decode-only version, which was given away for free, and the full version, which did the image encoding and decoding.

The encoded images had large amounts of data redundancy. Around 25 to 30% of the image could be destroyed and still achieve 100% perfect decoding. (There are many 2D image encoding schemes for data and most are very redundant. The 2D dotcode with the center bullseye used by UPS can be up to 25% destroyed and still be fully decoded.)

The 3D FAX decoder program could be used with a computer FAX-modem and directly read the recieved TIFF images, as well as reading scans of paper printouts.