Python Dithering Projects

hitherdither

1 1 250 3.7 Python

Dithering algorithms for arbitrary palettes in PIL
Stream

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ComputerScienceFromScratch

2 3 65 5.3 Python

Source for the book Computer Science from Scratch

Project mention: MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-12

If you want to make MacPaint drawings that incorporate your modern photos then I make a program for that. Retro Dither on the Mac App Store dithers and exports photos to MacPaint (wrapped in MacBinary for transport):
https://oaksnow.com/retrodither/
There’s also a chapter in my new book explaining how to write the same program in Python including Atkinson dithering, the MacPaint file format and MacBinary. You can get the code for free and do the conversions yourself without Retro Dither here:
https://github.com/davecom/ComputerScienceFromScratch
The book is here:
https://nostarch.com/computer-science-from-scratch

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