History
Adam7 is named after Adam M. Costello, who suggested the method on January 30, 1995, based on this five-pass scheme that had earlier been proposed by Lee Daniel Crocker:
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Alternative speculative proposals at the time included square spiral interlacing and using Peano curves, but these were rejected as over-complicated.
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