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Animats | karma 143047 | avg karma 6.11 · 2018-03-19 05:40:19+00:00

Nice. This is a decode-side thing; it can be used on existing images.

But the site should show more images. Some with hard edges, like text and line art, need to be included.

vanviegen | karma 1401 | avg karma 2.85 · 2018-03-19 07:11:16+00:00

Why would that be interesting? Jpeg is the wrong format for these types of images anyway, is it not?

vardump | karma 7011 | avg karma 2.24 · 2018-03-19 08:43:35+00:00

That's precisely why it would be interesting. Getting cleaner decodes of jpeg-encoded line art and screenshots would be great.

Some images are only available as badly encoded jpegs.

cma | karma 10501 | avg karma 1.7 · 2018-03-19 11:49:41+00:00

Fonts suffer from ringing, their lines can actually look better if they are on the block boundaries.

IshKebab | karma 13023 | avg karma 1.29 · 2018-03-19 08:50:23+00:00

Yes but there still isn't a universally supported "good format" so JPEG often gets used for text.

vanderZwan | karma 17470 | avg karma 3.4 · 2018-03-19 18:52:13

Because it might still help if someone else made the wrong choice in image format.