[Dominic Szablewski] was tinkering around with compressing RGB images, when he stumbled upon idea of how to make a easy lossless compression algorithm, resulting in the quite okay image Format, which seems to offer similar file sizes to the PNG style but is so easy it runs as much as 50 times quicker for compression and as much as four times quicker for decompression. application can be accomplished with a miniscule 300 lines of C. need a bit a lot more detail on the real-world performance? Well [Dominic] has that covered too, with a complete set of benchmarks for your perusal.
Image styles are one of those things these days that are developed by consortium, with so much complexity wedged in making it hard to carry out with limited resources, so we find it extremely refreshing to see somebody going back to fundamentals and creating something very lightweight, and plenty good enough in functional terms.
Other utilizes for the algorithm could be for very easy video compression, for applications where resource is tight and some low-effort bandwidth reduction would be beneficial. application in a little FPGA would also be quite straightforward, because the memory demand is quite low also.
The project is extremely new and already there are some tweaks happening to the format, so the GitHub project code may change without cautioning to reflect any corrections [Dominic] feels necessary.
Thanks [David] for the tip!