[fitsbits] Adding fpzip floating point compression {External}

[peter teuben]

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?

I get worried if we encode (compression) algorithms in order to decode 
FITS files.

  - peter

On 10/27/25 11:13, Barrett, Paul via fitsbits wrote:
> I would like to suggest that FITS add the fpzip 
> <https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/fpzip> floating point compression 
> algorithm to the FITS standard. fpzip is primarily designed for 
> lossless compression but also has a provision for lossy compression.
>
> I will be adding it to FITSFiles.jl, a pure Julia implementation of 
> the FITS standard.
>
>  -- Paul
>
>
> -- 
> Paul Barrett, PhD
> Department of Physics
> The George Washington University
> Washington, DC 20052
>
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