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Re:Silly Image Compression Idea by jtsiskin on Sunday April 10, 2022 @05:42PM (#30982012)
Compression doesn’t imply decompression… see JPEG, H264, etc…
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Re:Silly Image Compression Idea by dahart on Sunday April 10, 2022 @05:48PM (#30982068)
Maybe you could elaborate… what do you mean? Both of those examples (JPEG, H264) have decompressors for viewing, right?
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Re:Silly Image Compression Idea by bsuvc on Sunday April 10, 2022 @09:18PM (#30983486)
I think the point is that some compression algorithms are lossy (the original cannot be reproduced by decompression) and others are not.

You can’t restore a jpeg to its original image.

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