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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pixel sort</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="pistol.html" title="pistol"/><link rel="next" href="pizza-box.html" title="pizza box"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pixel sort</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pistol.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pizza-box.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pixel-sort"/><dt xmlns="" id="pixel-sort"><b>pixel sort</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Commodore users] Any compression routine which irretrievably loses
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valuable data in the process of <a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>ing it.
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Disparagingly used for ‘lossy’ methods such as JPEG. The
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theory, of course, is that these methods are only used on photographic
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images in which minor loss-of-data is not visible to the human eye. The
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term <span class="firstterm">pixel sort</span> implies distrust of
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this theory. Compare <a href="../B/bogo-sort.html"><i class="glossterm">bogo-sort</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pistol.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pizza-box.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pistol </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pizza box</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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