Abstract
Digital halftoning is a technique for converting an image with multiple levels of grey into a bi-level (bitmap) image, typically in preparation for printing on paper. It is standard practice to “optimize” the halftoning process to reduce the visibility of artifacts that appear as textures within what should be a region of uniform or slowly varying intensity. This paper describes a method of manipulating the halftoning process to cause the texture to give an indication of field direction, while the field magnitude is displayed using the intensity.
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Klassen, R.V., Harrington, S.J. (1991). Two-Dimensional Vector Field Visualization by Halftoning. In: Patrikalakis, N.M. (eds) Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68159-5_21
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