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PNG Pong

A pure Rust PNG/APNG encoder & decoder

tests docs crates.io

This is a pure Rust PNG image decoder and encoder taking inspiration from lodepng. This crate allows easy reading and writing of PNG files without any system dependencies.

Why another PNG crate?

These are the 4 Rust PNG encoder/decoder crates I know of:

  • png - The one everyone uses (used to be able to load less pngs than png_pong and slower, but has caught up).
  • lodepng - Loads all the PNGs, code is ported from C, therefore code is hard read & maintain, also uses slow implementation of deflate/inflate algorithm.
  • imagefmt - Abandoned, and limited in what files it can open, but with a lot less lines of code.
  • imagine - PNG decoding only.

Originally I made the aci_png based on imagefmt, and intended to add more features. At the time, I didn't want to write a PNG encoder/decoder from scratch so I decided to take lodepng which has more features (and more low level features) and clean up the code, upgrade to 2018 edition of Rust, depend on the miniz_oxide crate (because it can decompress faster than lodepng's INFLATE implementation) and get rid of the libc dependency so it actually becomes pure Rust (lodepng claims to be, but calls C's malloc and free). Then, I rewrote the entire library, based on gift and pix.

Goals

  • Forbid unsafe.
  • APNG support as iterator.
  • Fast.
  • Compatible with pix / gift-style API.
  • Load all PNG files crushed with pngcrush.
  • Save crushed PNG files.
  • Clean, well-documented, concise code.
  • Implement all completed, non-deprecated chunks in the PNG 1.2 Specification, including the PNG 1.2 Extensions and the APNG Specification

TODO

  • Implement APNG reading.
  • Implement Chunk reading (with all the different chunk structs).
  • StepDecoder should wrap StepDecoder, RasterEncoder should wrap ChunkEncoder
  • More test cases to test against.

Benchmarks And Comparisons

Using Rust 1.52.1, criterion and 4 different PNG sizes with PNGs from "./tests/png/" (units are: us / microseconds). I stopped anything that was predicted to take longer than a half hour with criterion with the message "TIMEOUT".

  • sRGB 1x1: Uses tests/png/profile.png
  • sRGBA 1x1: Uses tests/png/test.png
  • sRGB 64x64: Uses test/png/4.png
  • sRGBA 64x64: Uses tests/png/res.png
  • sRGB 256x256: tests/png/PngSuite.png
  • sRGBA 256x256: Uses tests/png/icon.png
  • sRGB 4096x4096: tests/png/plopgrizzly.png
  • sRGBA 4096x4096: Uses tests/png/noise.png

Encoder

Library sRGB 1x1 sRGBA 1x1 sRGB 64x64 sRGBA 64x64 sRGB 256x256 sRGBA 256x256 sRGB 4096x4096 sRGBA 4096x4096
png_pong 41.956 8.2661 1_025.7 700.80 2_646.1 5_061.5 587_320 3_587_100
png 29.538 9.4122 213.49 203.02 944.99 1_534.3 201_680 1_535_300
lodepng 59.989 10.700 1_399.3 982.63 3_391.3 6_664.7 831_190 3_394_900
imagefmt 8.7942 8.7399 211.01 177.82 901.22 1_569.4 218_550 1_285_700
imagine --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
aci_png FAILS 30.987 FAILS 289.24 FAILS 2_298.1 FAILS 2_135_400
libpng-sys 6.8443 2.9461 1_613.5 769.70 2_261.1 4_745.2 520_770 2_926_900

Decoder

Library sRGB 1x1 sRGBA 1x1 sRGB 64x64 sRGBA 64x64 sRGB 256x256 sRGBA 256x256 sRGB 4096x4096 sRGBA 4096x4096
png_pong 7.7520 3.9459 77.981 99.384 752.95 901.98 178_880 570_200
png 8.1195 6.6107 54.834 71.873 643.09 686.29 128_000 355_080
lodepng 5.8958 5.4527 77.050 97.762 882.83 982.76 230_570 563_210
imagefmt 4.2864 4.8706 74.715 82.026 566.86 758.27 69_465 545_060
imagine 2.8809 0.44822 3_202.3 2_266.4 2_056.1 10_753 442_750 27_944_000
aci_png 5.0243 4.3516 201.29 174.30 1_500.6 1_689.8 398_340 1_323_600
libpng-sys 3.6011 0.48747 1.8175 0.67344 25.809 4.4175 19_400 18_262

Table of Contents

API

API documentation can be found on docs.rs.

Features

There are no optional features.

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License

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