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Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained

runevision · 646.9K views · 2025-01-23 · 21:46

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Rune Skovbo Johansen explains Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering, a technique he invented and released as open source. It makes dithering stick to 3D surfaces and covers the experiments and shortcomings along the way, inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn.

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HN recommends it as the original explainer for a clever dithering technique and the go-to video in dithering threads.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2025–2026

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m12k · 2026-03 · Recommendation

If you find this interesting, you might also be interested in this video of someone diving even deeper into how to make the dither surface stable: [VIDEO]

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m12k · 2025-10 · Recommendation

And here's a couple videos about a technique that was inspired by the Obra Dinn's dither, but making it surface stable: [VIDEO] (explanation) [LINK] (demo)

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qwertox · 2025-04 · Recommendation

Somewhat related and worth watching: Surface-stable fractal dithering explained [VIDEO] There's a follow-up video to that one.

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