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AndrewDucker11/08/20242 repliesview on HN

GP is incorrect.

There is "Is identical", "looks identical" and "has lost sufficient detail to clearly not be the original." - being able to differentiate between these three states is useful.


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tialaramex11/08/2024

Importantly the first one is parameterless, but the second and third are parameterized by the audience. For example humans don't see colour very well, some animals have much better colour gamut, while some can't distinguish colour at all.

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Rygian11/08/2024

Lossless means "is identical".

The other two are variations of lossy.

Calling one of them "perceptually lossless" is cheating, to the disadvantage of algorithms that honestly advertise themselves as lossy while still achieving "looks identical" compression.

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