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by bz2 1623 days ago
Kornel is also behind the DSSIM library (in Rust), which I've found useful for comparing images before and after compression.

https://github.com/kornelski/dssim

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Fun fact: I wrote DSSIM as a development tool specifically for pngquant, because I needed a way to measure improvements in dithering. Classic per-pixel algorithms only saw it as added noise.
And the excellent Mac OS image compression utility ImageOptim: https://imageoptim.com/mac