Dither Studies
Ongoing project by Daniel Temkin to explore the aesthetics of dithering algorithms. The latest instalment is a browser-based customisable viewer allowing you to choose colours and alter the density – it is interesting to see what patterns emerge. It’s partly minimalism, algorithmic art, net art and maybe a little Warhol-like:
I began this series is 2011, misusing Photoshop to create dithering patterns, basically by giving it a plain color or gradient and asking it to dither using completely incompatible colors, exposing the patterns that emerge …
Last week I re-released it as an in-browser tool, allowing users to determine the palette (although encouraging the color combinations I like for it — by default it suggests the complementary color of which whichever first color you choose), and choose a dithering algorithm.
You can try this out for yourself here
More at Daniel’s website here, and more at Daniel’s Tumblr here