Halftone

Crosshatch

Hatching at an angle, denser where the tone is darker.

Crosshatch: a halftone effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Crosshatch in the studio

Controls

spacing
Distance between strokes in source pixels. Wide enough and the hatching stops reading as tone and becomes stripes
thickness
Stroke width against spacing is how much ink one layer lays down. Wider than the spacing and the layer goes solid
layers
How many hatching angles take part, and with them how many tonal steps there are. Solid black comes from thickness, not layers
angle
Angle of the first layer; the rest fan out evenly across a half turn from it
contrast
A number from -1 to 1, 0 by default.
ink
A colour, #ffffff by default.
paper
A colour, #000000 by default.

Starting points

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