cute. I'd like to see some photos without the dithering applied, as it looks similar to a regular dithered jpeg, like you'd see on
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
it would be fun to try out a few different algos for the colour space conversion.
it would be fun to try out a few different algos for the colour space conversion.
That's good for this use as the lossy compression of JPEG is specifically geared towards working with smooth gradients of 24-bit photographs, and that kind of smoothness is a quality that dithered images just don't have.
PNG's compression loves finding same-color fields and [losslessly] compressing them so it does this business just fine.
Anyway, the website is nice and I like the style.
It reminds me a lot of early JPEG days in the BBS world, wherein: Flame wars.
Those who only had VGA displays (or less) strongly preferred GIFs because they tended to look "right" when displayed with their predefined 256 color palette, whereas a combination of JPEGs and bad dithering by lazy display software took longer to load and looked far worse on the same systems. They were very loud with this preference.
Meanwhile, everyone with a truecolor display was quite certain that these GIF-loving folks were insane for their fondness of storage- and bandwidth-wasting 8-bit GIFs. It was clearly evident that JPEG was superior in every way for photographs, and that it was here to stay, and that that those who were limited to VGA really needed to learn to shut the hell up and spend that effort on getting a real video card instead. ;)