Halftone

Halftone

A print screen: the dot grows with tone, on a rotated grid.

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

Controls

cell
Screen pitch: the size of one dot cell. Small reads as tone, large as a pattern of dots
angle
Turns the screen. At 45° the rows of dots are hardest to notice; near 0° they line up and read as stripes
shape
What one screen element is. Lines keep growing after round dots have already met their neighbours, so shadows go darker
contrast
A number from -1 to 1, 0 by default.
invert
On or off, off by default.
ink
A colour, #ffffff by default.
paper
A colour, #000000 by default.

Starting points

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