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Re:Data Compression Drives the Internet. Here’s How It Works by esafak on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:21AM (#36268136)
Most image codecs are made for natural images; those of the real world, not synthetic ones like the one you proposed. Lossy codecs like JPEG use perceptual coding to maximize perceived quality for a given file size.
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