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Comment by vanderZwan

7 days ago

I don't get the question. Lossy compression uses color quantization all the time, doesn't it?

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esafak  7 days ago

Not typically. JPEG zeros out high frequency DCT coefficients, which is not the same thing. Hence my question: why go through this memory-intensive procedure?

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