After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Again, that would be TIFF. TIFF images can be encoded either with each line compressed separately or with rectangular tiles compressed separately, and separately compressed blocks can be read and decompressed in parallel. I have some >100GiB TIFFs containing elevation maps for entire countries, and my very old laptop can happily zoom and pan around in them with virtually no delay.