Show HN: Trigrad, a novel image compression with interesting results
This is the difference between someone who actually does something and academic work that claims to achieve something. This is half-done, but it WORKS and you can use it and understand it right now.I had the opportunity to try and implement a "novel" algorithm for image downscaling. I contacted the authors - one replied that he can't reveal the source code, and the other didn't reply. So I went ahead and invested about 2 weeks implementing and optimizing it to the point where it worked - but the results were far from what we wanted. If they just supplied a demo program where I could see if it worked for our case, it would be much better.