I kinda wonder how this would compare to an upscale and sharpen - a good amount of these screentone patterns are solid blacks on a consistent white or gray, whi

I kinda wonder how this would compare to an upscale and sharpen - a good amount of these screentone patterns are solid blacks on a consistent white or gray, which seems like it should work fairly well. Or maybe that'd round too much off - this is doing a pretty good job of keeping line-quality intact. That said, this is an interesting technique, and looks pretty good in the end... but the minor misalignments / pattern-jitter in some areas would probably bug me more than the blurry image, tbh. Seems like that could be improved somehow though, maybe by modifying the pattern it decides on with something similar but not original-pixel-aligned? --- edit: after writing the above and looking back at it a third or fourth time: I've changed my mind, the patterns this is producing will very likely look better than a sharpen when they're closer together or more heavily aliased. They're "plausible" and still look like patterns, sharpens have some terrible edge cases on stuff like the remote(?)'s frame. Maybe they just need some more examples / side-by-sides? I imagine more will be in the final paper, whenever that's linked.