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Biggest image in the smallest space
What’s the biggest pixel size of a PNG image in the smallest number of bytes? I wanted to try to create an image that could be downloaded but whose pixel buffer would be too big to store in the RAM of a PC. Here is a PNG image of 6,132,534 bytes (5.8 MB) and 225,000 × 225,000 pixels (50.625 gigapixels), which, if…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Sep 2, 2015 | Biggest image in the smallest space by fekberg | 359 | 103 |
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