Tag Archives: blue noise

Progressive image stippling and greedy blue noise importance sampling

Posted on August 31, 2022 by bartwronski

Introduction I recently read the “Gaussian Blue Noise” paper by Ahmed et al. and was very impressed by the quality of their results and the rigor of their method. They provide a theoretical framework to analyze the quality of blue … Continue reading →

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Transforming “noise” and random variables through non-linearities

Posted on March 16, 2022 by bartwronski

This post covers a topic slightly different from my usual ones and something I haven’t written much about before – applied elements of probability theory. We will discuss what happens with “noise” – a random variable – when we apply … Continue reading →

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Superfast void-and-cluster Blue Noise in Python (Numpy/Jax)

Posted on April 21, 2021 by bartwronski

This is a super short blog post to accompany this Colab notebook. It’s not an official part of my dithering / Blue Noise post series, but thematically fits it well and be sure to check it out for some motivation … Continue reading →

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“Optimizing” blue noise dithering – backpropagation through Fourier transform and sorting

Posted on April 26, 2020 by bartwronski

Introduction This will be a blog post that is second in an (unanticipated) series on interesting uses of the JAX numpy autodifferentiation library, as well as an extra post in my very old post series on dithering in games and … Continue reading →

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Dithering part three – real world 2D quantization dithering

Posted on October 30, 2016 by bartwronski

In previous two parts of this blog post mini-series I described basic uses mentioned blue noise definition, referenced/presented 2 techniques of generating blue noise and one of many general purpose high-frequency low-discrepancy sampling sequences. In this post, we will look … Continue reading →

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Dithering part two – golden ratio sequence, blue noise and highpass-and-remap

Posted on October 30, 2016 by bartwronski

In previous part of the mini-series I covered dithering definition and how dithering changes error characteristics of simple 1D quantization and functions. In this part I will try to look at what blue noise is, but first wanted to have a … Continue reading →

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Dithering in games – mini series

Posted on October 30, 2016 by bartwronski

This an opening post of mini blog post series about various uses of dithering for quantization and sampling in video games. It is something most of us use intuitively in every day work, so wanted to write down some of … Continue reading →

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