Very cool idea. Been playing with a similar concept: break down one image into smaller self-similar images, order them by data similarity, use them as frames for a video

You can then reconstruct the original image by doing the reverse, extracting frames from the video, then piecing them together to create the original bigger picture

Results seem to really depend on the data. Sometimes the video version is smaller than the big picture. Sometimes it’s the other way around. So you can technically compress some videos by extracting frames, composing a big picture with them and just compressing with jpeg