GoKawiilI don't know much about dithering. But when I visit other people's sites and they dither their images in cool ways I always wonder how they do it. So in case anyone is wondering, here's my current method for dithering these pink images.
Edit: Almost like I know myself too well — the pictures now look like this instead:
Which is covered in the post.
Welcome to all the hacker news readers who clicked on this post. I am thankful and glad that this post has come to entertain some of you. Here are some things I feel the need to add to the post since it has left my regular audience: There seems to be discussion about whether this counts as dithering. As evidenced by the very first sentence of the post, I am not an authority on the subject. But here is what Wikipedia seems to think: Dithering is analogous to the halftone technique used in printing. For this reason, the term dithering is sometimes used interchangeably with the term halftoning particularly in association with digital printing. (link) In any case — I am/was only aware of this technique being used for AM grid printing, as briefly layed out in the post. So I thought it might be fun to play pretend a little.
In any case — I am/was only aware of this technique being used for AM grid printing, as briefly layed out in the post. So I thought it might be fun to play pretend a little. this is a very inefficient method of reducing the size of an image file — I'd even say this little experiment has nothing at all to do with decreasing file size (in some unlucky cases it will even increase the size of your image). I mention this a few times in the post. It's just a bit of playing around with a certain aesthetic
please don't feed images of me and my friends to an LLM ?? The code for achieving each effect is all over this page. Just make your own image and feed that to an LLM.
Dithering, beside making a picture look (to put it professionally) cool as fuck, can also reduce file size (by using less colors while maintaining details) and thus needed storage (if using only the reduced images) and the weight of your website for the client. That's why sites like Low Tech Magazine use it, for example.
The idea of pink images came from a post a while back, when I tried this before. The post Designing without color introduces the idea of the current design, where I try to get a sort of black and white "printed" vibe, using color only for emphasis. (This makes sense only when you are a light mode user like me).
The image back then, with the old method, looked like this:
The key difference here being that I limited the picture's palette to true monochrome: black and this pink. Also, the weird "dithered" dots are much bigger.
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