i don't... hate... this?

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@eniko Could be they're less visible at the pixel density I'm viewing from

[cobbpg@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@TomF @eniko On the other hand, in the 286-386 era you’d still be able to use LUTs for such effects (e.g. fading towards a given colour in up to 64 steps), so the layout of the palette is not necessarily as critical as its contents.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cobbpg @TomF yes, but part of the challenge is that I'm using qbasic 1.1, the interpreted one without a compiler, without adding assembly. So doing my own per pixel operations is very slow

Meanwhile PUT is fast and lets me do bitwise operations. So that's much more viable

[techokami@woof.tech]

@eniko oh this looks delicious

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Texan_Reverend whoa that looks so cool!

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i added a 0-1 scalar that biases colors towards non-dithered to make things less busy. here's factors 0, 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 in order:

#PixelArt #GameDev #RetroComputing #dos #RetroDev

[ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko This dithering looks gorgeous.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcc what do you think of this? https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116040108035560003

[machinelordzero@mastodon.social]

@eniko reactions
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hmm?
blort

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@MachineLordZero is hmm? good

[machinelordzero@mastodon.social]

@eniko it's more go back and check before, does this one feel better or does that one
*optometrist voice* 1, or 2? 1, or 2?

[shadows_killer@mastodon.social]

@eniko without my glasses, at full screen and brightness and with my (OLED) phone at 30 cms from my face, I'd say .25 looks better

With my glasses on and my phone as I usually use it, I'd say .5

On any other screen I'm honestly not so sure, but the sweetspot seems to be arround there

[themipper@mastodon.social]

@eniko What is it about lowres dithered images that make you feel right at home and nostalgic?

They feel like a good book that provides a mental image with just the right amount of description and let your imagination fill in the details.

I like the .5 and .75 biased ones.

[dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de]

@eniko @bri7 It is actually a pretty good filter and way closer to how retro pixel art is supposed to look.

I'm playing with it enabled. I appreciate that there is a toggle though.

[metin@graphics.social]

@eniko Nice. The 1:2 pixel aspect pleasantly reminds me of the Amiga's "Medium-Res". 💚

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@eniko @Texan_Reverend Keep in mind that even on pretty bad CRT monitors, the picture would look much closer to what it looks like on LCDs than on CRT TVs. VGA monitors were not that bad.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

what's shocking me the most is that images with a lot of blues in it still work really well, despite only having 2 bits of blue (so 0, 85, 170, and 255)

[cloudthethings@hachyderm.io]

@eniko I still can’t believe how readable those images are at such a low resolution.

[craigp@mastodon.social]

@eniko I think this is because what makes blue so evocative is how much of other colors it has in it. Cool vs warm blues...

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

ok i found this utility by @Mattias_G https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/crtview and i'm going to take a shortcut

expect some more pretty images shortly >_>