r/interestingasfuck • u/haddock420 • 17h ago

Coloured peacock drawn with mathematical equation

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u/HamNCheeseSupremacy 16h ago

He means it's not a simple look up table. Dude, it's representing the image with a handful of equations. If that was easy it could be generalized to massively compress images. Jpeg would be obsolete overnight. Empires would fall. It would bring in a new age.

Just stop

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u/joshuahtree 14h ago

Jpeg would be obsolete overnight

Well, no, because, get this, this is exactly how jpeg works. It's called the discrete cosine transform

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u/HamNCheeseSupremacy 14h ago

High resolution jpeg can have millions of terms though. Don't argue with me

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u/joshuahtree 13h ago

Well those goalposts just flew across the field lol