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Pretty pleased with the load times, too. These are full-screen images ranging between ~20 and 38KB each. I got okay results with the usual Floyd-Steinberg dithering in GIMP, but I remembered #Ditherinator exists and that gave me a lot more control and way better results. The ability to turn down the amount of dithering is really helpful for the tile-based compression, since it allows more solid white and black spaces.

https://maple.pet/ditherinator/

Playing with #ditherinator

Picture of a person standing on road with a gloomy background

Breakfast #ditherinator

A picture of a cat from behind eating from a food bowl. The picture is Atkinson-dithered into black and white pixels.

Good morning #ditherinator

#Brickadia #ditherinator

Screenshot of Brickadia, of what appears to be a donut shop; built by maple (@mavica_again@computerfairi.es).

The screenshot is run through bytes ditherinator web app, mimicking the CGA style.

hi for my build date anniversary i'd love for people to play with #webgbcam and #ditherinator and show me the cool pictures they make with them thank you

https://maple.pet/webgbcam
https://maple.pet/ditherinator

it occurs to me that a large portion of the #fediverse might have my home instance https://computerfairi.es silenced so i figure an announcement from here might get more traction:

i've recently released #ditherinator, a tool for real-time palette-reduction and dithering of images:

https://maple.pet/ditherinator

i've wanted a tool like this for years and i'm glad i can share it with you now!

please post cool pictures you make with it tagged #ditherinator so i can see them!

a fisheye-lens picture looking out a building window into a cityscape, dithered into a pink and green palette

a long telezoom picture of a duck on the water, dithered into greens, purples and reds

a picture of a woman with pink hair and glasses, heavily compressed in resolution and palette giving it a very blocky look

a picture of a meal of eggs, bacon, hashbrowns and mushrooms, dithered into a 16-color EGA palette

Just a regular, materteral, standard woman. She certainly doesn't crave human flesh. #ditherinator

Futzed around with #ditherinator and I gotta say it's a darn good tool

#ditherinator

dithered photo of an hg aerial gunpla lying on a hobby mat

#ditherinator #selfie #gratuitousselfie

still obsessed with how much fun it is playing with #ditherinator v0.3 and custom palettes with the new luma mapping

Me, a white woman with curlyish hair wearing a black low-cut dress with a corset, taking a selfie in a mirror. The image has been processed to use mostly black, magenta, cyan, and yellow, and dithered using a halftone pattern like a newspaper.

Dithered

Please enjoy one (1) 16-color dithered Pike, pixelated and ready to pounce. Created using mavica’s Ditherinator.

Also by chance this week my friend Branen recently did a deep dive into the etymology of “dither” in the image processing context and found this 1912 citation where it meant allowing a little vibration for smooth movement of a piston, and this 1952 diagram comparing mechanical and electronic dither.

Or as he summarized:

Dither as a way of making machines work more smoothly -> dither as a way of decorrelating quantization noise from signal -> dither as a way of making digital images look better

That’s pretty neat.

#ditherinator #imageProcessing #pike #pixelArt #retrocomputing

Just for excessive measure here’s the pfp I previously posted on the actual hardware aahh it’s so good

#ditherinator

Sorry to be obsessive now but I’m posting all future selfies this way
#ditherinator

My hand holding a Playdate rotated 90° and with the screen displaying a selfie of me, a white woman wearing sunglasses on my head and a leopard print sweater. The image is dithered in black and white using the Atkinson algorithm.

Me, drawn by Tandye, processed by #ditherinator v0.2

@docpop rtyi? #ditherinator

#ditherinator #food #EGA

There's only one developer in the world whose projects and code I relish with the same energy as a new album from a favourite band, and folks, @mavica_again@computerfairi.es has done it again! Please check out The Ditherinator v0.1 for all your Atkinson / Bayer 8x8 / CGA mode 0 / MS Paint (+ MORE) image processing fun! https://maple.pet/ditherinator/

Post your results with #ditherinator and let mavica know what you think (+ hit its Kofi with a few bucks) https://ko-fi.com/squirrel

#ditherinator

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