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pixel sort
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n. [Commodore users] Any compression routine which irretrievably loses
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valuable data in the process of crunch ing it. Disparagingly used for lossy
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methods such as JPEG. The theory, of course, is that these methods are only
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used on photographic images in which minor loss-of-data is not visible to
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the human eye. The term pixel sort implies distrust of this theory. Compare
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bogo-sort.
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