Then you can put all possible images anyone could ever upload as a profile pic into a meta image and assign a 3 MB identifier to each user to specify which subsection of the image to view for that user
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Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 months agoThere is a technique where you put all the images side by side in one file and then reposition it in the view port to show different images. Usually this is for icons since profile pics change too often and would need rebuilt server side each time.
0421008445828ceb46f496700a5fa6@kbin.social 9 months ago
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 months ago
You know, I bet crypto mining rigs would be great at generating all those images.
ares35@kbin.social 9 months ago
that's image sprites.
nowadays, icons are very often SVG embedded right in the html or js.