For some media like pictures, (*) lossy types as opposed to lossless schemes are used.
One method for doing this is co-named for the inventor of the pentomino. That method is Rice-Golomb and is based on RLE algorithms. One algorithm for this that is gaining support is LZMA. One of the earliest techniques is named for Huffman. For some media like pictures, (*) lossy types as opposed to lossless schemes are used. The DEFLATE algorithm is used to create a common end product of this process, a zip file. For 10 points, name this process of making files smaller.
One method for doing this is co-named for the inventor of the pentomino.
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