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This makes no sense. For photographs, a decent quality JPEG is smaller and better looking than a dithered PNG or GIF.
by w0mbat 5y ago
This makes no sense. For photographs, a decent quality JPEG is smaller and better looking than a dithered PNG or GIF.
- nikau 5y agoYou can tell this article was written by someone young who thinks they have discovered sex drugs and rock and roll - dithering was a sub optimal solution to simulate more colours on old computers with limited colour palettes. Once computers got to the point where you could use any colour for any pixel it rightly died off, and its only use today is for things like e-ink displays or monochrome printing.
- robinsoh 5y ago> You can tell this article was written by someone young who thinks they have discovered sex drugs and rock and roll I couldn't tell that. I still can't tell that. > dithering was a sub optimal solution to simulate more colours on old computers with limited colour palettes. What is more optimal solution than dithering in that context?
- nikau 5y ago> What is more optimal solution than dithering in that context? Having hardware that lets you use whatever colour you want for any pixel.
- robinsoh 5y agoI'm not trying to be pedantic but when you wrote: "dithering was a sub optimal solution to simulate more colours on old computers with limited colour palettes." perhaps what you actually meant is: "dithering IS an optimal solution to simulate more colours on old computers with limited colour palettes."
- w0mbat 5y agoNo, he is using the past tense because personal computers with small color palettes are largely a thing of the past now.