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On dithering.

Thu Feb 25 21:57:32 PST 2021

I've been reading a bit of LOW-TECH MAGAZINE [1] lately and aside from their thought-provoking posts there's one thing that really stood out to me. It's their decision to use dithered images as a means to reduce the sizes of their pictures and to use this constraint to produce a pleasing aesthetic to their website.

While the site authors justify it as a means to reduce the overall size of the images that they serve in their blog. To me, the dithered images became an aesthetic style that allows LOW-TECH MAGAZINE to stand out from other blogs that I've been reading and, thus, made a lasting visual impact to me.

Perhaps I'm just at awe with how ingenious that approach is to hosting your own images. I'm running this gemini capsule from a faily low powered server with limited storage space and I've been thinking about a means to present pictures without relying on outside sources to host it for me. Now with dithering in mind I'm thinking of doing the same.

[1] LOW-TECH MAGAZINE