Somehash: A Blurhash-Inspired Image Placeholder
2025-04-15
To enhance user experience, this article introduces Somehash, an image placeholder solution similar to Blurhash but with a creative twist. Somehash extracts dominant colors from images using a Python script (leveraging KMeans clustering) and encodes them into a Base64 string. A React component decodes this string and renders an animated placeholder using lines until the high-resolution image loads. The author also discusses areas for improvement, such as optimizing encoding/decoding and creating a smoother transition to the full image.