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defanor on Sept 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dithered images and websites (2020)

Apparently the author's point is that image compression is useful, but dithering and then using lossless compression instead of using lossy ones sounds like rather poorly reinventing lossy compressions.

dTal on Sept 30, 2021 [–]

*posterizing then dithering. Dithering by itself always improves visual quality.

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