can't remember if i shared this fun computer thing i made

it's a lil toy for interactively exploring 1-bit dither — including my beloved Atkinson dither from the MacPaint era — by playing with it like it's a board game

try it here, but note there's zero instruction and the UI is full of secrets: https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/dither-explorer/

or, more fun, watch me explain how it works by saying words and moving my hands a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZcmWhTeOM&list=PLCC8lmauZTzeEP7mIsOOI4HKeeyBN2rIy&index=5&t=114s

trip out, have fun <3

@spiralganglion love this.

wondering what else is in tangents 🤔

@inscript it's a secr—

this extremely sick varint lib by local hero @expede

https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/

bijou64

An accidentally fast variable-length integer encoding

wow! thank you

good dithering pattern always consists of multiple names :)
@hi do you have a favourite name?
floyd-steinberg has been my default for many cases (discovered via #imagemagick long ago), til jarvis-judice-ninke, it also looks good...