This blew up while I was asleep so I’ll try my best to answer now! 1. Yes the palette is being optimized for as well which is imho what makes it different from

This blew up while I was asleep so I’ll try my best to answer now! 1. Yes the palette is being optimized for as well which is imho what makes it different from a quantization approach 2. That’s a good point. I cite a reference blog post which does use blur in the loss function towards the end of the post. Unfortunately I think pure blur would still produce a noisy image as it would remove variance in the eyes of the loss function but not the final image. I would guess something like the example I give with purple, red, blue pixels would still be a problem for blurred loss