Dithering is a technique for simulating more colors or gradients than a palette can hold. By distributing quantization error across neighboring pixels, it creates the illusion of smooth tone — a trick borrowed from print, early computer graphics, and lo-fi image compression.
This tool lets you upload an image and apply different dithering algorithms in real time — Floyd-Steinberg, ordered (Bayer matrix), and others. Adjust palette size, threshold, and output scale to get the look you want. Good for reducing images to 1-bit, making pixel art palettes, or just seeing what your photos look like through a Game Boy lens.
Built as an experiment with Claude. Open the tool and drop in an image.