Anyone like image processing, decoding algorithms, and would like to pick their brain to help me understand how these 80x60 thumbnails are encoded ?
Here is a little Sunday challenge, that hopefully might end with one new small bit of knowledge:
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/08/16/thumbnail-decoding-challenge/
Colin McMillen
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