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Clustered Dot (Halftone Ordered)
Groups pixels to simulate offset printing. Ideal for ink-dot or halftone-style appearances.
- Author
- Various researchers
- Year
- 1980s
- Complexity
- medium
- Processing cost
- 2 / 5
How it works
Each pixel is compared with a threshold matrix tiled across the image. Fast, parallel and deliberately textured.
| 14 | 10 | 11 | 15 |
| 9 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
- A 4×4 matrix of 16 ranks is tiled across the image; a pixel turns white when its brightness exceeds the threshold at its position.
- That gives 17 distinct gray levels, each reproduced by a fixed dot pattern.