alt Hacker NewsThanks for sharing. I didn’t even know this type of thing had multiple algorithms.
Can you share what are the reasons someone may want to compress and image to 16 bytes?
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lifthrasiir • today at 12:38 PM
These things are called Low-Quality Image Placeholders (LQIP) and frequently used for front-end performance engineering.
For image placeholders while the real image is loading. At 16 bytes, that can easily be just another attribute on an html img tag.