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Re: [Digital BW] Halftones was Piezography Review

2001-10-11 by Carolyn Frayn

> If you are getting moire patterns, then the halftone algorithm is not very
> good.  As I said, ordered dither doesn't have to give moire, and there are
> different methods to do ordered dither too...

In almost every magazine I scrutinize I see the rosettes, I thought that was
a very acceptable thing.  I was truly under the impression that if I did not
see the pattern then it was printed with stochastic screening. I'm going to
do some research, thanks.

> I did this work some 10 years ago, I would have thought it would be old hat
> by now!  I may even still have the microcode from back then...but it would
> take some digging.

Austin, I would not know what to do with it if you found it! ;-)

Thanks! Carolyn

> As I understand you "halftone" is like saying "bird"...
> "stochastic" is like
> saying "Robin"... does that make sense?

Works for me ;-)

Cool! <g>

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