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As part of an analysis/synthesis scheme, the SP system offers these potential benefits:
As noted in Section 6.7, the system has potential to achieve relatively high levels
of information compression: (1) because it can, when required, perform a relatively
thorough search for redundancies in data and (2) because, unlike most other systems
for compression of information, it has potential to encode discontinuous dependencies
in data.
When the SP system has been generalized to work with 2D patterns [17, Section 13.2.1],
and the creation of 3D digital models [21, Sections 6.1 and 6.2], it may, potentially,