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Image Dithering: Floyd-Steinberg and Retro Pixel Effects

Learn how dithering algorithms simulate colors with limited palettes for retro computing aesthetics.

What Is Dithering and Its Role in Digital Imaging

Dithering is a technique for simulating colors that are not available in a limited palette by strategically arranging pixels of the available colors. When a display or format supports fewer colors than needed, dithering distributes quantization error across neighboring pixels to create the illusion of intermediate shades through spatial mixing.

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