Image Dithering
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The other day sloum posted an interesting image to gemlog.blue.[1]
It was very unexpected and striking. I had seen similar images of
sloum's around various places on the non-web, but this one really
piqued my interest. I had played with sloum's lo-fi image dithering
tool [2] before, and I vaguely remembered another program of 
his, called tdiv [3], which allowed viewing images in a terminal 
by converting them to braille characters. It's a very simple, yet
effective tool.

[1]: gemini://gemlog.blue:1965/users/sloum/1600529364.gmi
[2]: https://tildegit.org/sloum/lid
[3]: https://git.rawtext.club/sloum/tdiv

I spent a little time playing around with tdiv, and quickly
became absorbed by it. I found that it works especially well with 
line drawings or graphics with high contrast. I'm going to play
around with it a little more to see what I can make it do. So far
it has yielded one fine addition to my sparse gallery here, and a
sweet header for my gemini capsule [4]. It's proving to be an
effective way to procrastinate on my paper =]

[4]: gemini://rawtext.club/~mieum

                                            September 25, 2020