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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: I think my Floyd is Steinberged....
Summary: not pink
Keywords: printer driver, dithering, Floyd-Steinberg
Message-ID: <17118@gryphon.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 89 03:59:53 GMT
References: <25763@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <25763@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes:
>Can someone tell me how the Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm is supposed
>to work? 

Sure. It's supposed to place dots in a more or less random (but ordered)
pattern over the page so it fools your eye into thinking that the color
it sees is not the color of the dots on the page.

Hope this helps.

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Seriously: thw book you want is Digitial Halftoning from MIT Press.

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