Doug,
Andreas, thanks for the changeset/update! Yes, this is basically what I wanted.
You're welcome.
This update makes working in 8-bit mode a lot nicer in general!
It sure looks a lot nicer now (though I hardly ever work in 8bpp ;)
The lighter halftoned colors (e.g. the pastel Browser color) look really good... you usually can't even see the halftoning. The halftoning becomes more noticable in the duller colors,
Yeah - the problem is that there is only so much you can do with a balanced 2x2 stipple pattern. It might be worth checking if a better effect can be achieved using different patterns - note that for 8bpp you could actually get 4x4 pattern (since the pattern fills one word you can pack 4 different pixel values in one word) but it's also limited in the number of colors that can actually be represented. If you find a better method of generating the dither patterns let us know!
I suppose conceivably there might be some people out there who would like to turn off halftoning in 8-bit depth mode, so it might be nice to have a Preference to do that at some point.
Good point. Thanks for mentioning it!
- Andreas
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