Balloons

Lempel-Ziv-Welch Compression

A robust universal lossless compression algorithm. This implementation supports variable-width compression codes.

Packbits Compression

A simple byte-oriented run-length encoding as defined by the TIFF Spec 6.0

stuff(v, a, loc)

Stuff bits of a into 32-bit unsigned integer v at a given byte location loc

julia> Balloons.stuff(zero(UInt32), 0xff, 1)
0xff000000

julia> Balloons.stuff(zero(UInt32), 0xff, 4)
0x000000ff