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	 FIASCO («F»ractal «I»mage «A»nd «S»equence «CO»dec)
		       Copyright (C) 1994-2000
     Ullrich Hafner <hafner@bigfoot.de>, http://ulli.linuxave.net
			     Version 1.0
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FIASCO is an image and video compression system based on fractal
coding which outperforms the well known JPEG and MPEG
standards. FIASCO has been developed during my Ph.D. thesis "Low
Bit-Rate Image and Video Coding with Weighted Finite Automata", Mensch
& Buch Verlag, ISBN 3-89820-002-7.

Some information about the FIASCO compression library:
The library consists of the five "classes"

	- fiasco_coder: used to encode a still image or a sequence of
	  frames to a FIASCO stream, see fiasco_coder(3) or the file
	  bin/cwfa.c for details.

	- fiasco_decoder: used to decode the individual frames step by
	  step, see fiasco_decoder(3) or the file bin/dwfa.c for
	  details. 

	- fiasco_image: internal representation of an decoded FIASCO
	  image, see fiasco_image(3) or the file bin/dwfa.c for
	  details. 

	- fiasco_renderer: used to render the generated image object
	  to one of the supported X11 output formats, see
	  fiasco_render(3) or the files bin/dwfa.c or bin/pnmpsnr.c for
	  details.

	- fiasco_options: used to control various decoder and encoder
	  options, see fiasco_options(3) or the files bin/cwfa.c,
	  bin/dwfa.c or bin/pnmpsnr.c for details.


Since the coder doesn't store any internal information, the only
method of this class is the function fiasco_coder ().

For all other classes, a new object is created with the
fiasco_[object]_new () function, e.g., fiasco_decoder_new () creates a
new fiasco_decoder_t object. Each object has to be deleted manually by
calling the destructor fiasco_[object]_delete () (or by calling the
method object->delete (object)). If you prefer C++ calls: every
function of the type fiasco_[object]_[method] can be called via
[object]->[method] ([object], args), too.

Note: PLEASE use only functions, which are noted in the fiasco.h file
(i.e., all functions and types with the prefix fiasco_)!