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What’s cool is that they dithered the images to voluntarily to make them as small (in bytes) as possible. So it’s visual nice but it also is coherent with the
by pjerem 3y ago
What’s cool is that they dithered the images to voluntarily to make them as small (in bytes) as possible.
So it’s visual nice but it also is coherent with their editorial and with the choice to host on a solar powered server.
Everything is explained here :
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/#how https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/#h...
I think that just this set of choices transforms this somehow classic blog into something special. Maybe some sort of technical art. Somehow it’s the living proof that in a low-tech world, we don’t have to ditch the internet, just transform it.
- kibwen 3y agoI've been thinking about this a lot lately, and specifically I'm wondering if we couldn't do even better if we had custom file formats specifically for two-bit grayscale images (or heck, even one-bit black-and-white images). For example, the OP is using PNG, but I'm wondering if there would be a material difference if, say, you had a format that didn't assume that you ultimately wanted 3 or 4 bytes per pixel. But maybe compression makes this moot?