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by jtbarrett 1190 days ago
The displays can show black, white and red. He picked a good image for that palette. Still, the dithering was surprisingly effective.
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TylerE 1190 days ago
Sounds like the early two color process in Hollywood… they got red (for skin tones) and a sort of teal blue green that could sorta do plants and sorta do sky, but wasn’t real convincing at either.
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throwthrowuknow 1190 days ago
They should have used orange and blue https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContra...
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stavros 1190 days ago
Dithering is amazing. I built a display to show my calendar:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

When testing it out, I tried to show a grayscale image, because the display supports four tones, but it came out horrible. Then I displayed a dithered two-tone image (black and white) and it was much, much better:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/dithered.j...

I wonder if there are any arbitrary-palette dithering algorithms that I could try, it would be great to be able to use the other two tones and still dither.

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