[rh12503]

That's an interesting idea! I suppose it could be used for compression, although my intentions were for this to be a generative art project.

I triangulated a 1988×1491 jpg using 10,000 points and managed to reduce the size to 20% of the original size, but the triangles could still obviously be seen.

[hapidjus]

You could probably make it into an SVG file to reduce the size even more.

[jacob019]

Love this idea. A novel vectorization.

[fogihujy]

Adding my voice to this. It would be an amazing tool for web work -- the vectorized images look far better than the very small jpeg images used in lazy loading today.

[jarek-foksa]

Similar functionality is already implemented in Boxy SVG editor [1]. There is also another more powerful "Primitivize" generator which has more options, e.g. you can choose whether the vectorized image should consist from triangles or rectangles.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/I8Fq1bM.gif

[mdiesel]

And could inline, so that the preview image is loaded with the page itself.

[gillesjacobs]

It sure looks better aestethically esimov/triangle or fogleman/primitive! Goal achieved I would say.

It still would be cool to see this compared to those in Low Quality Image Placeholder implementations and find out if the extra work on nicer aethetics is preserved when the blur applied.

[rh12503]

Blurring is a good idea! It could work with placeholder images, but it'll probably be better with smaller ones (eg. profile pictures).