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May 1, 2019 5 tweets 3 min read
In Unraveling the JPEG, @Omar4ur provides an explorable explanation of all of the details of the JPEG compression, complete with interactive image editors and glitch art.

parametric.press/issue-01/unrav… Use the image editors built in to the article to manipulate images at various stages in the compression pipeline.

Behind the ubiquitous JPEG are layers of algorithms, some which take into account properties of the human visual system 👁️