Your Text Needs More JPEG
We’ve all been victims of bad memes on the Internet, but they’re not all just bad jokes gone wrong. Some are simply bad as a result of being copies-of-copies, as …read more Continue reading Your Text Needs More JPEG
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Parametric Press Unravels The JPEG Format
This is the first we’ve heard of Parametric Press — a digital magazine with some deep dives into a variety of subjects (such as particle physics, “big data” and such) …read more Continue reading Parametric Press Unravels The JPEG Format
Video Compression Explainer — Like We’re Five-Year-Olds
[Ottverse] has an interesting series in progress to demystify video compression. The latest installment promises to explain discrete cosine transforms as though you were five years old.
We’ll be honest. At five, we probably didn’t know how to interpret this sentence:
…the Discrete Cosine Transform takes a set of N
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