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by Solvency 1083 days ago
Huh? I've never really understood this metaphor.

Take any photograph in Photoshop. First, save one copy of it as a compressed JPG.

Now, on the original, add a small densely repeating tiled pattern multiplied on top as a layer. Like a halftone effect, dot texture, whatever. Technically you're adding more order and less chaos. The resulting image won't compress as efficiently.

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The idea is to use the best compressor possible. So called Kolmogorov complexity.