dithering
A method to create the illusion of color shading/blending through varied spacing of different-colored pixels from a limited palette.
Common in animated GIFs and other 8-bit color formats, especially when representing true-color 24-bit photographic images.
Also called bitmapping.
h4. Examples
!asset #25127165: different techniques of dithering
h4. See also
* halftone
* screentones
* linear hatching
* pixel art
* oekaki
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