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by thechao 41 days ago
I've had a lot of success just LZ4ing a bitmap.
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PNG compression is just DEFLATE. For archival storage, I've been expanding PNGs with `precomp` [0] and then running modern compression algorithms on them.

[0] https://github.com/schnaader/precomp-cpp