Hazelfire / svd-compress

Compress your images really slowly with svd!

SVD compression

Compress images using Singular Value Decomposition!

This is a really inefficient way to compress images, but it gets some interesting results once you're done with it.

• compressor.py the main python code, relies on python, PIL, and numpy
• shell.nix a nix environment, will install python, PIL and numpy for you if you're a nix user
• max.jpg a sample picture of my teddy rabbit Max and his friend Alice the pig
• result.jpg a compressed version of max.

To run, simply:

python compress.py max.jpg 50

where the last number is the level of compression you want. You can go from 1 to min(length,width).