gslin / text-to-image-compression

text-to-image-compression

Reproducing code about https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/compressing-text-into-images/ this interesting project.

Reproducing

./text-to-image-compression
pngcrush -ow pg1513.png

Then:

echo -n "PNG: "; cat pg1513.png | wc -c
echo -n "Gzip: "; cat pg1513.txt | gzip -c | wc -c
echo -n "Gzip (-9): "; cat pg1513.txt | gzip -9c | wc -c

Results

PNG: 64379
Gzip: 64563
Gzip (-9): 64331

License

See LICENSE.