Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format

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jszymborski•13 minutes ago

Does anyone else also feel... uneasy, bothered, it's hard to express the feeling, by LQIPs?

Primarily those that are blurry, my brain wants to figure out what the picture is, even before I recognize it's an LQIP, which is straining and frustrating because... well it's blurry or super degraded.

Is it really better than just having a placeholder square with maybe the most prominent color? Or just a good old progressive image?

ape4•about 1 hour ago

It would be nice if the low quality image also provided a headstart for the full quality image.

mpais•about 1 hour ago

Shameless plug, SQZ does just that, you can check it out at https://github.com/MarcioPais/SQZ

Also for some discussion on more technical aspects and sample images, check out the thread over at the Encode Forum: https://encode.su/threads/4183-SQZ-Low-complexity-scalable-l...

childintime•about 3 hours ago

Is there any reason the tech is optimal to 32x32? 48x48 might be interesting also. Maybe the decoder can directly render to 48x48 or 64x64, so the size remains the same, and no upscaling is needed?

Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format

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