https://github.com/hopson97/balic

Bad And Lossy Image Compressor: The perfect compressor (which doesn't actually compress, just lowers image quality giving the impression of compression) for all your lossy needs, created using C++ and SFML
https://github.com/hopson97/balic

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Bad And Lossy Image Compressor: The perfect compressor (which doesn't actually compress, just lowers image quality giving the impression of compression) for all your lossy needs, created using C++ and SFML

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hopson97/balic
• Owner: Hopson97
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2018-10-10T07:36:41.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-06-18T17:38:50.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-10T17:30:01.465Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: CMake
• Homepage:
• Size: 381 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Balic

Bad and Lossy Image Compressor

A program that "compresses" the quality of an image, allowing you view the process while it happens.

It does this by looking at pixel, and then doing a recursive flood fill until it cannot find anymore pixels of a similiar colour. This continues until the entire image has been "compressed".

This program does actually compress the image, it is just a name for a joke, as image compressing usually results in loss of image quality.

## Building

Requires SFML library

On Ubuntu:

```

sudo apt-get install libsfml-dev

```

Building:

```

git clone https://github.com/Hopson97/Balic.git

cd Balic

cmake .

make

```

## Running

```

./balic  

```

Example:

```

./balic chinatown.jpg out.jpg

```

## Example

Flood fill compress:



Fullsize:

![Balic](https://i.imgur.com/tAchXKD.gif)

Line Compression:

![china_town_lines](https://i.imgur.com/JVhB3An.jpg)

Image source: https://streeteasy.com/blog/chinatown-still-nycs-best-real-estate-bargain/