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Oh boy, I don't know how I got the impression that it was RLE. Maybe I was mixing it up with older versions of Targa.

Yeah, the noise was more the point I was getting at. IIRC PNG also has the benefit of prefilters which allow it to (and maybe there are other things) compress rectangles as contiguous symbols rather than splitting them across lines, which makes obvious sense for 2D images.




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