DITHERSMOOTHING : a demonstration and discussion

[Rerg1]

Helm, could you maybe expiriment with using this technique?
I think it would give us alot of good idea's of using this form of pixeling.

[Ai]

Helm, could you maybe expiriment with using this technique?
I think it would give us alot of good idea's of using this form of pixeling.

Why don'chU get to it then, since you're the one asking?
It always helps if you can show that you've put in effort before asking for help.

[eck]

how would you go about doing this if the line was on more of an angle?  i tired to do it, and each time, it either looked terrible or like the lines were thick.  after that i tried different variations of the AA color, but that didn't help either...  ideas?

[ptoing]

It does not really work the closer the lines are to perfectly diagonal.

[ndchristie]

its a question of slope, yup.  a line that is ¹/₃₂ might look very nice, because the slant is so slight and the length so long that the height gap between one and two pixels doesnt appear as important. but a slope that is ¹/₈ will appear terrible because the difference is greater.  each pixel jump is nearly 12.5% of the total length, four times as visually disturbing 3.125%.  AA also happens to work less well on near-straight lines because of its blockiness, giving dither the upper hand.

the main issue i have with the dithering is that i never work with lines long enough to be worth using it on.