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Comment by kqr

2 months ago

I haven't written about this yet but I don't often see it mentioned: dithering has applications outside of image processing. Any time one needs to create a sequence sampled from a distribution, but would like to do so "evenly" without creating lumps, Floyd–Steinberg is a decent candidate.

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yeasku  2 months ago

Also in audio to downsample to 16 bits.

  • mordae  2 months ago

    Quantize to 16 bits.

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