Comment by Terr_
2 months ago
I bet somebody in the biz has a pipeline for running different algorithms/formats/compressions, and applying different metrics for "would these look about the same to a human on a certain screen at a certain distance."
> 1 BPP
Yeah, the different ASCII characters might be best modeled/analogized as local dithering.
AA-lib is alive and kicking (I think): https://aa-project.sourceforge.net/