Professional web developer and hobbyist programmer from the Welsh Marches. I'm particularly interested in performance, accessibility, and reducing carbon emissions from software.
What an amazing article. I used dithering a lot (though a didn't really understand it properly) when I was at college to etch images onto wood using a laser cutter. As you have said, it isn't suitable for every site, but any reduction in image size is great for the environment and web performance; and the technique could look very good for certain sites (retro gaming sites spring to mind).
Something that I was considering recently was whether an oversized, dithered image could be used in place of greyscale images. The browser would scale it down and it might appear almost indistinguishable from an actual greyscale image. Thanks to your article I'm now going to have a play around with this.
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What an amazing article. I used dithering a lot (though a didn't really understand it properly) when I was at college to etch images onto wood using a laser cutter. As you have said, it isn't suitable for every site, but any reduction in image size is great for the environment and web performance; and the technique could look very good for certain sites (retro gaming sites spring to mind).
Something that I was considering recently was whether an oversized, dithered image could be used in place of greyscale images. The browser would scale it down and it might appear almost indistinguishable from an actual greyscale image. Thanks to your article I'm now going to have a play around with this.