Comment by tasty_freeze
1 month ago
It seems like the natural categories are (1) photographs of real things, (2) line art, (3) illustrator images, (4) text content (eg, from a scanned document).
Is there a reason you used only synthetic images, ie, nothing from group 1?
Hey, tasty_freeze!
The motivation behind the benchmarks was to understand what are the options today for optimizing the types of image we use PNG for, so I used the same set of images I had used previously in a comparison of PNG optimizers.
The reason the set does not have photographs: PNG is not good at photographs. It was not designed for that type of image.
Even so, the set could do with a bit more variety, so I want to add a few more images.