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		corysama 65 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do we need dithering? It’s useful all 8-bit scenarios when you have overlapping transparency. Especially with smooth, dark images. https://loopit.dk/rendering_inside.pdf The new Silksong apparently shipped with really bad banding that could have benefited from the techniques in that doc.

magicalhippo 65 days ago [–]

Inside was pretty darn rad, very nice breakdown.

They link to the following thesis:

Optimal Dither and Noise Shaping in Image Processing

http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3867

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