Introduction
2im (twim) is an image format designed for extremely-low BPP (bits-per-pixels) range. Name of format hints that a single Twitter message (140 CJK characters, worth at least 287 bytes of payload) is enough to transfer an image.
Unlike SQIP (primitive), output is not directly understood by browser. A tiny (1089 bytes, if compressed) JavaScript decoder is used to rasterize input to ImageData.
See also: interactive demo page and twim vs SQIP comparison.
Coming soon
- add build / use manual
- better CLI (set number of therads, "fast" encoding mode)
- publish decoder as NPM module
- publish encoder module
- synchronize Java and C++ implementations