FB1 research program · The FB1 Research Series
Part 2 of 7 · 1:05
Compressionless Compression
Instead of squeezing the recording, FB1 keeps no recording at all. It writes down the recipe.
Transcript
Most compression works by squeezing.
You take a recording, and throw away the parts nobody will miss. That's how an MP3 works.
Squeezed into an MP3, this fart still takes about 21,000 bytes.
We tried something different. Compressionless compression.
We don't squeeze the recording. We don't keep the recording at all.
We write down the recipe instead. Nine dials, one room, and a random number. Twelve bytes in all.
When you press play, the fart is cooked fresh, from scratch, right in your browser.
The same recipe makes the same fart, every time, on every device.
12 bytes, instead of 107,800. That's about 9,000 to one.
A long one in a cathedral does even better. About 50,000 to one.
Nothing was squeezed. Nothing was lost. Because nothing was kept.
Compressionless compression. Try it at fartbytes.com.
All seven parts
- Part 1 · 1:01Why We Did It
- Part 2 · 1:05Compressionless Compression
- Part 3 · 1:16The Method
- Part 4 · 1:01What It Means for Humanity
- Part 5 · 0:55The Silent Ones
- Part 6 · 1:14The Sputter
- Part 7 · 0:50Peer Review
The narrator is an AI-generated voice, made with Kokoro, an open-source text-to-speech model. Every sound was rendered by the Super Fart Lab's own engine from public-domain recordings, which you can download from the free fart sound effects library.