I suspected everything the moment I read 13-year-old-boy
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
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♪ Hey, hey, billy, can you
compress the Buick ? ♪
Well, all right, but
he'll probably Pu-ick.
Two thoughts. First, there is a way to high chance that some people are basically doing this already or are taking inspiration from this. Second, the tell that it’s a joke article is that they bothered to destroy the prints, which implies that they bothered to scan them as well.
It seems to mean the prints of digital photos they were compressing, as it wouldn't involve scanning
Whatever happened to fractal image compression, which compressed an image by finding parts similar to larger regions of the picture, so that is could reconstruct the image from itself.
It only works if the image is actually fractal-like. Real world is a bitch
Sometimes the world is a Mandel Bro and sometimes it isn't.
Were in a fractal just too zoomed in to notice
Actually, a simulation of a fractal