[TML] New 3d computer simulation design

[Timothy Little]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:54:46PM -0800, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> On the other hand, compressing the data makes it more vulnerable to
> errors in transmission.

Not really.  Not compressing it is a form of redundancy, but one that
is not tunable to the channel and makes very poor use of the redundant
data.  Even Baudot 5-bit encoding is about 3-4 bits more than
required.  If that bandwidth were instead dedicated to a well designed
error correction scheme, the message would perfectly survive errors
that would leave the raw text completely unrecognisable.


> BTW, have you tried seeing what size Frankenstein would be in Baudot?

That depends upon how you choose to mangle the characters that do not
exist in the Baudot character set.


- Tim