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Hi Paul,</div>
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You do mean adding it as an option to FITS tile compression, right? This may include bintable compression, as well as image arrays.</div>
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There have been a number of suggestions lately related to enabling additional algorithms for tile compression. It was always designed to support this. Any such that are adopted into FITS should (at least) be enabled for FPACK. It would be good if such algorithms
could be evaluated similarly to as described in papers I and II linked at: <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fpack/" data-outlook-id="e866d15a-3b9e-4a89-a0fe-b109da071b2b">
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fpack/</a></div>
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(The website is still accessible, if not being maintained, during the gov’t shutdown.)</div>
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Speed as well as compression ratio are important in efficient data representations. Decompression may be faster or slower than compression, etc.</div>
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<div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">On 10/27/25, 8:27 AM, "fitsbits" wrote:</div>
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<p class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">I'm not quite understanding how this would be implemented. Is this a new BITPIX ? Or does it only apply to a new extension. like how BINTABLE was done?</p>
<p class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">I get worried if we encode (compression) algorithms in order to decode FITS files.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/27/25 11:13, Barrett, Paul via fitsbits wrote:</div>
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<a href="https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/fpzip" data-outlook-id="274108c4-bb7a-47dc-8947-f5566dd1f1e2">
fpzip</a> floating point compression algorithm to the FITS standard. fpzip is primarily designed for lossless compression but also has a provision for lossy compression.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing">I will be adding it to FITSFiles.jl, a pure Julia implementation of the FITS standard.</div>
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