Re: Second Life on an Apple II

[sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

On Apr 14, 9:44 am, "Joshua Bell" <inexorablet...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Are you thinking of Bill Atkinson's algorithm, documented here
> http://verlagmartinkoch.at/software/dither/index.html?

Yeah, that's it. Presumed you'd know because of your job.

> If so, it's also an error diffusion dither, with a different kernel. I tried
> it, actually, and looked slightly worse. (I have a variant of my app that
> lets you pick from a handful of algorithms.)  I'm using a modified
> Floyd-Steinberg algorithm. Modified in that, so far as I can tell, the
> sample code I based it on is buggy in a really bizarre way... but it looks
> better than the corrected version! I'm still scratching my head over that
> one.

Quick, patent it!

Cheers,
Nick.