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QOI lies between uncompressed images and entropy coded compressed images. It also happens to work heuristically quite well for such a simple spec. Maybe its def
by pizza 4y ago
QOI lies between uncompressed images and entropy coded compressed images. It also happens to work heuristically quite well for such a simple spec. Maybe its defining feature is its simplicity, foremost (and as a consequence of that, speed, secondarily)
- Dylan16807 4y agoI know where it lies on the compression spectrum, I'm asking what use case prefers it.
- pizza 4y agoWherever the codec has to be as small as possible and do as little as possible while not caring about the payload size
- Dylan16807 4y ago"As little as possible" sounds like RLE or not compressing at all to me.