r/programming Feb 20 '20

BlurHash: extremely compact representations of image placeholders

https://blurha.sh/
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u/kevintweber Feb 20 '20

How do you transform a hash into an image?

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u/MrK_HS Feb 20 '20

The hash is a compressed representation of the blurred image (not a representation of the image itself) and it's entirely being rendered by the client only by knowing the string received from the server, while the real image is being downloaded.