Monochrome and Color Dithering


Dithering techniques are used to render images and graphics with more apparent colors than are actually displayable. Dithering is sometimes called digital half-toning.

When our visual systems are confronted with large regions of high-frequency color changes they tend to blend the individual colors into uniform color field. Dithering attempts to uses this property of perception to represent colors that cannot be directly represented.



Lecture 4   Slide 21   6.837 Fall '00