Smaller Digital Images

I've been investigating a number of techniques in computer science to reduce the footprinte of image frames for my new video service that I'd like to release. My mission to make multiple streams be able to viewed from Formula 1 on the same amount of bandwidth used today for their livestream and if possible higher quality and higher frame rates.

For now, I'm going to share that we should all be using AVIF image formats. It's unbelievably amazing for something that every machine already has.

Take this image of kyoto, it was originally 17M as a high resolution TIF that I had scanned from slide film (Fuji Velvia) from a trip I took in 2005. And when it’s converted from a high resolution lossless image, like a TIF or PNG. It won’t work with converting a compressed image such as a JPG. After it’s converted to AVIF, it’s lossless and 180kb. The same resolution and quality. If you don't check, the image resolution is 3000 × 2008.

For the geeks, it's as simple to use imagemagick by running convert image.tif image.avif and it'll work. You can install that with homebrew on a mac.

My image on region of mars is of higher quality, the original image was 55MB and the one on the page is 3.5MB as a lossless image.