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Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth

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Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth

In 2007 I wrote aboutĀ using PNGout to produce amazingly small PNG images. I still refer to this topic frequently, as seven years later, the average PNG I encounter on the Internet is very unlikely to be optimized. For example, considerĀ this recent Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon. Saved directly from

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Better Image Resizing

In a previous post, I examined the difference between bilinear and bicubic image resizing techniques. Those are the two options available in most graphics programs for resizing an image. After some experimentation, I came up with these rules of thumb: * When making an image smaller, use bicubic, which has a

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The myth of infinite detail: Bilinear vs. Bicubic

Have you ever noticed how, in movies and television, actors can take a crappy, grainy low-res traffic camera picture of a distant automobile and somehow "enhance" the image until they can read the license plate perfectly? Yeah. I don't know what kind of crazy infinite-detail fractal

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