Lossy RLE

The attribute "lossy" is a contradiction to the fundamental mechanisms of the RLE. However procedures for special applications were developed, which reduce the colour resolution while encoding. The losses result from the entire encoding scheme, not from run length encoding itself.

The aim of this procedures was a better compression for image data like pictures or photos. Whether this technology was used to a larger extent, is not well-known. In the meantime such methods become obsolet because more complex algorithms offer better compression rates and quality.

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