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Re: Grayscale Mosaics
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Sat, 8 Jan 2005 03:53:25 GMT
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Maarten,

My mosaics are more than just a dithering of the 5 grayscale lego colors. In MLCAD, using a dithering of the 5 colors, I create a palette of 9 colors that I feel tricks the eye into seeing more shades, and therefore a clearer image. Here’s a poor example:



On the left is the image with just the 5 color dithering. On the right is the same image using my system. IMO it looks much smoother, especially in person.

Your image would look like this:



:)

Corey

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=110213



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  Re: Grayscale Mosaics
 
(...) Maybe -first of all- we need a good definition of "dithering": Your left image shows no dithering at all. I see a similar conversion method as the one I used on the mosaic of (URL) my children>. I simply divide the total image in X fields of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)

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  Re: Grayscale Mosaics
 
To create my (URL) Level 42 mosaic> I used the Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorythm: This algorythm was originally written to convert images to black & white (NO grayscale) to reduce filesize. I used this very same algorythm in a 3-dimensional space: (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)

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