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Re:Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014) by Cthulhu_ on Monday March 25, 2019 @08:01AM (#19481771)
Would a BMP be easier to generate? I'm sure you'd get 99.99% static though.
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Re:Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014) by lachenmayer on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:12PM (#19486777)
Yeah definitely, a BMP doesn't really have any "interesting" structure though because it's more or less just an array of pixels. The visual artifacts in JPEG files come from all the downsampling / blocks / cosine transform stuff which is really what I wanted to explore.
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