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About

Fast, optimized TS implementation of the Wolt Blurhash algorithm.

• https://blurha.sh/
• https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash
• https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash/blob/master/Algorithm.md

This implementation is principally based on the official TypeScript version of the above repo, but in addition to API extensions, the algorithm has been refactored & optimized in several fundamental ways, including:

• massive caching & reduction of repeated cosine calculations in both encoder/decoder
• reduction of internal allocations
• approximation of gamma conversion hotspot (the slightly lower precision is negligible for this use case)
• reading & writing of 32bit pixel data (i.e. using Uint32Array vs. Uint8ClampedArray)

On Firefox 122 (MBP M1 2021), these changes result in ~1.6x faster encoding and ~2.3x faster decoding performance...

Status

ALPHA - bleeding edge / work-in-progress

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Installation

yarn add @thi.ng/blurhash

ESM import:

import * as bhash from "@thi.ng/blurhash";

Browser ESM import:

<script type="module" src="https://esm.run/@thi.ng/blurhash"></script>

JSDelivr documentation

For Node.js REPL:

const bhash = await import("@thi.ng/blurhash");

Package sizes (brotli'd, pre-treeshake): ESM: 1.21 KB

Dependencies

• @thi.ng/api
• @thi.ng/base-n
• @thi.ng/canvas
• @thi.ng/errors
• @thi.ng/math

Note: @thi.ng/api is in most cases a type-only import (not used at runtime)

Usage examples

One project in this repo's /examples directory is using this package:

| Screenshot | Description | Live demo | Source | |:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | Interactive & reactive image blurhash generator | Demo | Source |

API

Generated API docs

import { encodeFromImage, decodeToCanvas } from "@thi.ng/blurhash";
import { imagePromise } from "@thi.ng/pixel";

// obtain image data in 32bit ABGR format
// (little endian byte order, same as canvas image data)
const pixels = new Uint32Array(...);

// compute hash
// default detail = 4 (must be in [1,9] range)
const hash = encode(pixels, imgW, imgH, 4, 4);
// "ChD9#TE7NFt6k]WCnhbc"

// in browser env you can encode directly from an
// HTML image or canvas element, see API docs for options
import { imagePromise } from "@thi.ng/pixel";
const hash = encodeFromImage(await imagePromise("test.jpg"));

const hash = encodeFromCanvas(canvas, 4, 4);

// decode to a raw 32bit ABGR pixel array (with optional contrast param)
const pixels = decode(hash, 32, 32, 1);

// decode hash to a new canvas element (optionally attach it to DOM)
const canvas = decodeToCanvas(hash, 32, 32, 1, document.body);

// use CSS to stretch
canvas.style.width = "320px";
canvas.style.height = "240px";

Authors

• Karsten Schmidt

If this project contributes to an academic publication, please cite it as:

@misc{thing-blurhash,
  title = "@thi.ng/blurhash",
  author = "Karsten Schmidt",
  note = "https://thi.ng/blurhash",
  year = 2023
}

License

© 2023 - 2025 Karsten Schmidt // Apache License 2.0