Package nom.tam.fits.compression.algorithm.rice

package nom.tam.fits.compression.algorithm.rice

The Rice comppression algorithm and its options. This lossless compression algorithm was designed by Rice, Yeh, and Miller the code was written by Richard White at STSc at the STScI and included (ported to c and adapted) in cfitsio by William Pence, NASA/GSFC. That code was then ported to java by R. van Nieuwenhoven. Later it was massively refactored to harmonize the different compression algorithms and reduce the duplicate code pieces without obscuring the algorithm itself as far as possible. It's weird that it's a package by itself, but that's life.

The only classes in here that users would typically interact with are RiceCompressOption and potentially RiceQuantizeCompressOption, e.g. via CompressedImageHDU.getCompressOption(Class) to set options after Rice compression was selected for compressing an image HDU.