dithered color
- noun
- /ˈdɪðərd ˈkʌlər/
- Specialized
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color difuminado
- When zoomed in, you can see the dithered color pattern of tiny dots on the screen.
Examples
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The artist used a dithered color technique in her digital painting.
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The old computer used dithered color to display images with a limited palette.
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Early video games relied on dithered color to make graphics appear more vibrant.
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I love the effect of dithered colors in retro video games.
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Early video games relied on dithered color to make graphics appear more vibrant.
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The old computer used dithered color to display images with a limited palette.
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When zoomed in, you can see the dithered color pattern of tiny dots on the screen.
Synonyms
A pattern of small dots printed so it looks like one color
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Morphology
dithered + color
The phrase is built from a past-participial modifier + 'color', so it signals a process applied to color; however the relevant sense of 'dither' (a technical graphics process creating dot patterns) is specialized and not predictable from the common B1 sense of 'dither' (to be indecisive). Because the construction partly signals a manipulated/processed color but relies on a technical verb sense that learners are unlikely to know, it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Dithered color comes from old computer and video game screens where tiny dots of different colors were placed in a pattern so from far away your eye mixes them into another color. That's why dithered color means a 'color effect' made by dot patterns to make one color look like more colors on screens with only a few colors.