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Lossy PNG compressor — pngquant command based on libimagequant library

8 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2011-03-17 · latest 2015-07-15

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  1. I use vantage point trees for finding the closest point: https://github.com/pornel/vpsearch ( https://github.com/pornel/pngquant/blob/master/lib/nearest.c )
    comment by pornel · 2015-07-15 · in Yinyang K-Means: A Replacement for Classic K-Means with Consistent Speedup
  2. pngquant is C99 https://github.com/pornel/pngquant
    comment by pornel · 2015-02-13 · in C99 tricks
  3. …to wrote a library which does lossy PNG compresssion which would be ideal for these use cases: https://github.com/pornel/pngquant
    comment by acdha · 2014-07-16 · in Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0
  4. There is a version of pngquant that uses Wu's algorithm: https://github.com/pornel/pngquant/tree/wucut However, Wu's algorithm requires preprocessing R * G * B * A * int array, which is 16GB of RAM if done at full RGBA quality, so in…
    comment by pornel · 2014-01-13 · in Pngquant – Lossy PNG compressor
  5. …that. Also for people on non-Mac systems, it appears this is available for Linux / Windows as well: https://github.com/pornel/pngquant Edit: Better link to pngquant: http://pngquant.org/
    comment by nacs · 2013-08-17 · in Lossy PNG
  6. …now , and it is compatible with all browsers. Comparison: http://pngmini.com/vs-webp/ Source code: https://github.com/pornel/improved-pngquant
    comment by pornel · 2011-11-18 · in Lossless and Transparency Encoding in WebP
  7. …that gives significantly better results than original version, gd2 library and often rivals pngnq: https://github.com/pornel/improved-pngquant It is a bit slow (converts image several times feeding back result's quality back to the…
    comment by pornel · 2011-04-17 · in Instant 8-bit alpha PNG converter
  8. …I'm also working on modernised pngquant, which might give higher-quality results than Fireworks: https://github.com/pornel/improved-pngquant
    comment by pornel · 2011-03-17 · in PNG that works