HOW THINGS WORKZ on Instagram: "Downsampling reduces an image’s size by selecting fewer pixels from the original, keeping only the larger visual patterns while discarding fine details. As the number of samples decreases, small features disappear, edges soften, and textures lose definition. Yet the main shapes remain clear enough that the scene is still easy to recognize. This process is used in cameras, editing software, and machine-learning systems to shrink data and speed up processing. While