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Dithered images do not compress well. I'd be interested to see side-by-side comparisons of optimised pngs, optimised jpeg, reduced-pallete optimised pngs, and s
by Retr0spectrum 8y ago
Dithered images do not compress well. I'd be interested to see side-by-side comparisons of optimised pngs, optimised jpeg, reduced-pallete optimised pngs, and some more cutting-edge formats like BPG[0] and FLIF[1]
[0] https://bellard.org/bpg/ https://bellard.org/bpg/
[1] https://flif.info/ https://flif.info/
- adambowles 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076214
- vanderZwan 8y ago> Dithered images do not compress well. That does somewhat depend on whether we are talking about positioned or Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Positioned dithering is a lot more regular and predictable, and hence easier to compress.