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Jaws dropped. Maybe having the option of adding 1-2% of luminance noise after decompression to disguise the plastic feel would make it look even better. It would look a bit different every time you load the image, though.

I would love to be able to use this today.



Must not necessarily look different: use a PRNG with a fixed seed, possibly as part of the image itself. Since there's nothing cryptorelevant here, the PRNG can be a simple one and its exact parameters specified as part of the standard.


The x265 encoder might not have Psy-RDO enabled --http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/37

It penalizes "loss of detail" like that, biasing towards (inaccurate) noise over (accurate on average) absolute pixel values (PSNR).


I find BPG isn't nearly as plastic as WebP in this comparison.




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