Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!braudes From: braudes@seas.gwu.edu (Bob Braudes) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Dithering.. Message-ID: <3276@sparko.gwu.edu> Date: 7 Jun 91 13:01:26 GMT References: <2695@news.chips.com> Reply-To: braudes@seas.gwu.edu () Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C. Lines: 13 There seems to be some confusion as to the difference between dithering and halftoning. Newspapers are halftoned, with different sized dots, while TV is dithered. In dithering, a pattern of pixels is used to simulate a color by having the visual system combine (usually different) individual colors into a color not readily obtainable. I'm rather new to this newsgroup, and have a question. Are personal attacks and smug remarks commonplace, or is this a place to try to work together to advance the state of multimedia systems? I hope that it is the latter, because there is a real need for such a group. If it is the former, then we are wasting a lot of bandwidth for hot air.