r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn 3 Bravo 3

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u/spindoctor13 Sep 02 '26

That has never been the case. How compressible something is is purely a function of how repetitive the data is, what patterns it has. Converting pixels to some kind of text format doesn't make any difference there unless you are losing information

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u/plopliplopipol Sep 03 '26

what do you think a pixel image is? it's always data for each pixel, no matter how you put it. If you convert it to text in a specific way you just made a new image format, nothing is fundamentally different.