dithering

A method to create the illusion of color shading/blending through varied spacing of different-colored pixels from a limited palette.

Common in animated GIFs and other 8-bit color formats, especially when representing true-color 24-bit photographic images.

Also called bitmapping.

Examples

Danbooru asset #25127165: different techniques of dithering

See also

• halftone
• screentones
• linear hatching
• pixel art
• oekaki