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by mogmog99 1707 days ago
Are there any '1 bit' artists on here looking for work? Ie 1 bit pixel maps/cities or 'dither punk' style.

I require several pieces completed for commission, and am looking for collaborators related to a startup I am working on.

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Not an artist but I made a project which purpose was to show maps (OSM, Google) on 1bit displays (low resolution eInk) and of course needed the impression of more than 2 colors to show shading and certain details. I wouldn't call it "dither punk" and am not sure if that's even what you are looking for.
Are the results online somewhere?
Quickly put together three sample frames from the application before sent to the display (1bit bitmaps)

https://imgur.com/a/4CbqBnj

Never really bothered (because not project scope) but in theory should work with any content/image really.

Pixel art is a true art, applying a naive filter or resampling is not gonna look good. Keep in mind the target screen is 200x200
just take whatever image you have in mind and apply a filter?