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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you look at advertising posters up close they still put dots next to each other. Actually your phone screen works like that too

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, but with modern desktop publishing the computer software can decide where to put each pigment for best effect. A century earlier it was a completely mechanical/optical process that still produced decent results. It looks like halftone is the process name, but this was a class I took 20 years ago and I’m just skimming Wikipedia.