From Philosophical Research
# colour compression experiment
```
original 2.7 MiB
256 greys, jpg 90 2.1 MiB
128 greys, jpg 90 2.1 MiB
64 greys, jpg 90 2.2 MiB
32 greys, jpg 90 2.4 MiB
8 greys, jpg 80 2.2 MiB
256 greys, png 9 6.2 MiB
32 greys, png 9 2.9 MiB
8 greys, png 9 1.4 MiB
256 greys, gif 7.4 MiB
32 greys, gif 3.1 MiB
8 greys, gif 1.5 MiB
folder, jpg 55 MiB
folder, 8 png 40 MiB
```
this looks like its main appeal is not actually saving space,
but just in creating losslessly-encoded images that are a little retro, like the very early internet
that still has its uses, honestly. I think it creates a good mood for the series
