I have a bigger budget and would love higher quality, would it be possible easily to adapt the code to ouput 50-100 bytes strings in a similar fashion (2x-4x), or it'd be a complete rewrite? I read the JS code but unfortunately I'm really unfamiliar with low level byte manipulation and could not make heads or tails out of it.
Given the difference in quality seen, I'd guess Thumbhash at 50 bytes would be similar quality to webp at 100-150 bytes, so basically 1/3rd of the size or 3x the quality for "the same price". The examples of webp are way worse quality, and almost 2x the size.
