monochrome scarab lineart

2025-11-14,
of dithers and icons

Orange, Friday, 14 November 12025 HE
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F, a.d. XVIII Kal. Dec. AUC MMDCCLXXVIII
13.0.13.1.11, 9 Chuwen 9 Keh, Centeotl
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line of apartments, San José, California

2012-11-07 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
line of apartments, San José, California

Nena – “99 Luftballons” ↗

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not too long ago, Apple luminary Bill Atkinson passed away – one of the things he is most known for is “Atkinson dithering”, a variation of error diffusion dithering (ex. Floyd-Steinberg) that requires somewhat less processing power and produces slightly more contrasty results that read better on low resolution (at least by our standards) systems – while ImageMagick doesn’t include an Atkinson dither option, it can be pretty decently faked

Atkinson dithering ↗

magick <input-file> -resize 50% \
	-dither FloydSteinberg \
	-define dither:diffusion-amount=75% \
	-remap pattern:gray50 \
	<output-file.png>
bitmap dither of line of apartments, San José, California
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