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> there is no way of rasterizing a vector image to 16x16 and preserving anything but a blurry mess.

Deep learning suggests differently?

So instead of 5kB bitmap we'll do a 768B vector + a 5GB diffusion model, plus waste 20 seconds just to render it.

You got me on the model size but speed wise there are algos that run fast

Those are pretty fast but I suspect spending nearly any amount of time running some model to spit out an icon is too much time. I should be able to load a directory with 1000s or 10s of thousands of files extremely quickly.

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