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by esafak 370 days ago
What is color quantization used for in this lossy compression age?
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vanderZwan 370 days ago
I don't get the question. Lossy compression uses color quantization all the time, doesn't it?
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esafak 370 days ago
Not typically. JPEG zeros out high frequency DCT coefficients, which is not the same thing. Hence my question: why go through this memory-intensive procedure?
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qingcharles 370 days ago
GIFs
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