Roadmap

[robertkist]

Since this is a labor of love, there will be no dates in this roadmap. But it is what I will very likely work on next...

1. CLI interface (might be a separate project) so libdither can be used in scripts and automated pipelines
2. DONE Color dithering support for Ordered / Bayer dither and (Variable) Error Diffusion - this already exists in a Python prototype
3. DONE Color quantization down to a user specified number of colors - Python prototype exists
4. DONE Dithering with a custom palette with a certain amount of user specified colors - Python prototype exists
5. DONE Support for handling transparency (1-bit alpha test) - Python prototype exists
6. add more color ditherers

[mavizasyon]

Hey, great to see such a project and thanks, I saw a program that apply reaction diffusion effect to image, software name was Stochaster, how is that works? would you implement that one day?

[robertkist]

I'm not ruling it out, but probably not any time soon.

I'm pretty busy and stochastic methods are quite a different beast that I feel don't have time to get right now.
Besides, it'll be hard to beat Stochaster - looks like an awesome tool. Thanks for the tip! :)

It's more likely I'll add color dithering soon, because that builds on knowledge and code I already have.
That also fits more into the use cases I want to cover - dithering, esp. for pixel art, retro game dev, etc., rather than printing (where there are tons more halftoning techniques than Ditherista / libdither covers)

[mavizasyon]

thank you a lot