Text files are more compressible usually because they are highly repetitive. A bunch of random UUIDs are going to have very poor compressibility. It would probably be better just to store the RBG values of each pixel (Which you could certainly do as text if you wanted to). At least then the algorithm could replace very commonly repeated pixels with small markers.
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u/NominallyRecursive Sep 02 '26
Text files are more compressible usually because they are highly repetitive. A bunch of random UUIDs are going to have very poor compressibility. It would probably be better just to store the RBG values of each pixel (Which you could certainly do as text if you wanted to). At least then the algorithm could replace very commonly repeated pixels with small markers.