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fpng
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png crate gets an ultrafast compression mode, up to 4x faster decompression
When the QOI format was first announced it wasn't clear that was even possible while keeping PNG format compatibility. But the fpng and fpnge C/C++ libraries showed it was, and today you can take advantage of those advances in a general purpose PNG library in Rust!
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Hello, PNG
CRC is a table and 5 lines of code. That's trivial.
>zlib is 23k lines
It's not needed to make a PNG reader/writer. zlib is massive overkill for only making a PNG reader or writer. Here's a tiny deflate/inflate code [2] under 1k lines (and could be much smaller if needed).
stb[0] has single headers of ~7k lines total including all of the formats PNG, JPG, BMP,. PSD, GIF, HDR, and PIC. Here's [1] a 3k lines single file PNG version with tons if #ifdefs for all sorts of platforms. Removing those and I'd not be surprised if you could not do it in ~1k lines (which I'd consider quite simple compared to most of todays' media formats).
>Of course they're not common formats so you're stuck with complex formats like PNG
BMP is super common and easy to use anywhere.
I use flat image files all the time for quick and dirty stuff. They quickly saturate disk speeds and networking speeds (say recording a few decent speed cameras), and I've found PNG compression to alleviate those saturate CPU speeds (some libs are super slow, some are vastly faster). I've many times made custom compression formats to balance these for high performance tools when neither things like BMPs or things like PNG would suffice.
[0] https://github.com/nothings/stb
[1] https://github.com/richgel999/fpng/blob/main/src/fpng.cpp
[2] https://github.com/jibsen/tinf/tree/master/src
- Quite OK Image is now my favorite asset format
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Computing Adler32 Checksums at 41 GB/s
This was actually considered, and other libraries do ignore checksums, or at least have options to:
https://github.com/richgel999/fpng/issues/9
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QOI – The Quite OK Image Format
In the other direction, you can target a subset of PNG to get less optimized images but with QOI-like encode and decode speed: https://github.com/richgel999/fpng
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ReShade 5.0 Released!
On specific operations like screenshots for example the new version is WAY faster though. We were using stb_image_write.h but switched to fpng which promised 12-19x faster compression at smaller sizes. That and the fact that screenshot saving have now been given it's own thread so it now longer causes a small stutter like when it was on the main thread, means that screenshot are now near instantaneous.
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QOI – The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression
I think QOI inspired the creation of https://github.com/richgel999/fpng which creates standard PNGs and compares itself directly to QOI.
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Losslessly compresses RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression
BTW, today I found this fpng-fast PNG writer. There is a comparison with QOI in the readme.
qoi
- CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG
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Ethically Sourced Lena Picture
Her request is politely-phrased and reasonable. I don't think there's a legal or ethical issue, but respecting the wishes of others when it costs nothing is just kindness.
However, the way that some have seized on it, and then interacted with others in their communities is ... neither polite nor reasonable.
e.g. https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/issues/35
- PSA: Use ZopfliPNG to compress your PNG assets
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The most famous picture used as a standard in computer science is nudes from Playboy!
How do you know it's not a problem for the people who work with computer vision? Let's take this for example - sure, the request itself was presented very unprofessionally, but this is still an example of someone in a computer vision-adjacent field stating in no uncertain terms that they have a problem with the image.
- What’s the best lossless image format?
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At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus
Yes. Without a supporting statement, it's ad hominem. But I provided a supporting statement.
This is the issue I'm taking about: https://mobile.twitter.com/richgel999/status/146443578680850...
Which links to here: https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/issues/35
Where everyone agrees, yes, the image should be removed. They didn't know about its history. Would he please stop being a gigantic asshole about it.
So if that's not blowing things out of proportion, I don't know what is.
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QOI – The Quite OK Image Format
I don't know about CUDA, however I've made an AVX2 based encoder a few months ago : https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/pull/143
I intend to create an AVX2 based decoder but I had absolutely no time to work on side projects in the past three months.
You might also want to take a look at this streaming encoder if you want to encode large files with a tiny memory footprint : https://github.com/MKCG/php-qoi/blob/main/src/FFI/lib/qoi.c
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This is huge: GameMaker Studio 2 now uses QOI image format for textures!
Not only does compression improve this situation today, but using QOI means improvements may continue to come over time. QOI is a very new, open source image format, and that's already proving to be an advantage. By itself, QOI compression is pretty weak, but YoYoGames have forked it and worked in BZ2 compression to surpass the old PNG format. As QOI itself improves and as YoYoGames continues to work on it, it's almost guaranteed that we'll see the compression ratio in GameMaker get better over time.
- QOI – The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression
What are some alternatives?
fpnge - Demo of a fast PNG encoder.
PNG-spec - Maintenance of the PNG specification
libdeflate - Heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression and decompression
libjxl - JPEG XL image format reference implementation
oss-nvjpg - Hardware-accelerated JPEG decoding on the Nvidia Tegra X1
Zpng - Better lossless compression than PNG with a simpler algorithm
qoi2-bikeshed - "Quite OK Image" version 2 discussions
php-qoi - QOI image encoder and decoder written in pure PHP
qoi - A rust implementation of the “Quite OK Image” format for fast, lossless image compression
libpng - LIBPNG: Portable Network Graphics support, official libpng repository
ASFML - Ada binding to the SFML library