After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    Now we need a image fornat for very high resolutions that does slicing already by itself. Would enable easy parallelization too.

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      6 days ago

      Again, that would be TIFF. TIFF images can be encoded either with each line compressed separately or with rectangular tiles compressed separately, and separately compressed blocks can be read and decompressed in parallel. I have some >100GiB TIFFs containing elevation maps for entire countries, and my very old laptop can happily zoom and pan around in them with virtually no delay.