from one plane of complexity (2017)



A map of the different complexities of compression artifacts drawn by the Angel of History.

The map features the realms of:
 

⦁ Dots
(pixels, dither, coordinates) 

━ Lines
(interlacing, interleaving, scan line, border, beam)

▩ Blocks
(macroblocks, cluster) 

⌇ Wavelets
(JPEG2000)

⟗ Vectors
(3D obj, time encoding in MPEG4)

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