Then the compressor comes. It finds repetition. It says: You are not this large. You are not this true. It folds identical rows into a single instruction: Same as above, for 47 pixels more. It casts out entropy like priests casting out joy.
-mpng is the incantation for multi-PNG , for the image that is not one image but a stack of ghosts— frames of an animation that never played, layers of a god who could not decide which world to flatten. xtool -mpng reflate
You will not become smaller. You will become lossy in a lossless world. But you will breathe again. And breathing is the only portable format. (Reflation complete. Image may now exceed expected dimensions.) Then the compressor comes