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inb4 “it’s actually 14 kb 🤓” it’s the joy that is 1kb in size, here’s an image that’s 1kb:

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dug up some examples, I don't have the talent needed to remake that, nor the executables for it but this is what people could compress back in the day:

699 bytes:

923 bytes:

1.4kb:

The same but smaller so 770 bytes:

and some eye candy:

2.3kb:

2.1kb:

10kb !

So yeah, hard to push that original under 1kb I guess, but who knows ^^ !

Merry Christmas !

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Shit, you're absolutely right, I missed an (in hindsight very obvious) optimization - bit depth. It's been so long since I've actually needed to worry about it that I forgot that the setting existed! What makes it even worse is that I did already play with quantizing the colors dwon to a more limited space, I just never baked that in as the bit depth haha.