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Raph Koster's Stars Reach: A 30-Year MMO Dream Takes Flight Raph Koster. The name alone conjures images of groundbreaking online worlds for many an MMO veteran. The visionary mind behind genre-defining titles like
SplatHash offers a novel approach to image placeholders, encoding any image into a fixed 16-byte string (22-char base64url). It stands out with significantly faster decoding and lower memory allocations compared to alternatives like BlurHash and ThumbHash, making it ideal for performance-critical UIs where client-side rendering speed is paramount. It uses Oklab color space and Gaussian blobs packed into 128 bits.
